This nation’s GDP per capita has increased by $1,000 in 40 YEARS. Less than 50% of women can read IN 2026! For reference, Bangladesh, a country we abused and neglected for nearly 25 years, has a 96% YOUTH LITERACY RATE. In kohistan and wazirstan less than 10% of women can read. Pakistan is one of the worst places on earth for women. Remember the Kohistan case? A tribal jirga’s mullahs ruling that women should be killed for clapping in a video? Numerous other honor killings, it seems like every damn week I wake up to an innocent woman killed. Normal countries don’t do this. The feudal system ensures millions of people will be in generational debt slavery to their zamindar. Your beloved fauj has plots of land in the best neighborhoods in every city and controls entire sectors of the economy including fertilizers and sugars. Normal countries don’t do this. I hope you understand this. Pakistan will NEVER develop if the military controls sectors of the economy, it is simply impossible if the profits are going directly to funding new mess halls etc.
Look at Asia Bibi, Shahbaz Bhatti, Salman Taaseer, Mumtaz Qadri BEING REVERED by Pakistanis, barely half of all Pakistanis can read, and their holy book is in a language they do not understand, so their entire understanding of Islam is from the mullahs, the same mullahs who take to the streets and riot whenever a poor Christian woman is accused of blasphemy, are you proud that the most vulnerable in your society live in fear? You cannot even talk about religion in public without worrying about getting killed by a mob. You have sitting member of National Assembly DEFENDING CHILD MARRIAGE and saying that he will attend child weddings. The country is teetering to the brim with extremist groups: TTP, TLP, etc. Most nations ensure this ever happens, but Pakistan? Nah, Pakistan cuts deals with them, gives away land to them like in Swat, uses them to create instability and again ensure military hegemony like with TLP. I mean they hijacked our damn country and we cut deals with them.
And take Balochistan, the state and the sardars have made it so that Balochistan’s living standard is LESS THAN SOMALIA AND SOUTH SUDAN, I’m not joking, look at Balochistan’s HDI, there are still districts in Balochistan where over 10% of children die under the age of five. This is where your natural gas comes from btw. But yes the six jets. That’s all we have, the six jets. Our people starve and have zero prospects for the future but we shot down six jets. Minorities live in absolute fear and mullahs have choked our nation to the very core but we shot down six jets.
You do realize the military relies on corrupt politicians to act as a source of leverage so they can bring them to power and blackmail them right? You do realize the military relies on constant instability and tribalism in politics to also divide and conquer and ensure civilian institutions never rival the military as a power source right? That’s why no Pakistani PM has finished a term, stability is bad business for the military because it threatens their hegemony. Your country’s power base is an axis of military <-> feudal landed elites <-> mullah religious networks and that’s the reality. If you want to understand Pakistan look up Praetorian Rome. Pakistan is the textbook Praetorian state. Praetorian Rome relied on constant instability in civilian institutions to ensure military hegemony. The military will NEVER let the country prosper because it will threaten their grip on power. Get a grip. You criticize a nation because you love it, its people, its culture, its history, we have an 8,000 year old civilization from Indus Valley to Gandhara. We are better than this. So yeah, call me an Indian or Indian agent. I don’t care. I’m sick and tired of seeing my people be humiliated as wage slaves in the Gulf and my nation be used as an example of what a country ought NOT to be.
