What is wrong with Pakistan?

[Toramana]

What's Wrong with Pakistan?

Why geography -- unfortunately -- is destiny for South Asia's troubled heartland

BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN

Perversity characterizes Pakistan. Only the worst African hellholes, Afghanistan, Haiti, Yemen, and Iraq rank higher on this year's Failed States Index. The country is run by a military obsessed with -- and, for decades, invested in -- the conflict with India, and by a civilian elite that steals all it can and pays almost no taxes. But despite an overbearing military, tribes "defined by a near-universal male participation in organized violence," as the late European anthropologist Ernest Gellner put it, dominate massive swaths of territory. The absence of the state makes for 20-hour daily electricity blackouts and an almost nonexistent education system in

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/18/whats_wrong_with_pakistan?page=full

[Shah-i-Kot]

"tribes "defined by a near-universal male participation in organized violence," as the late European anthropologist Ernest Gellner"

what snotty racist. Just because NATO got their asss handed to them, now he has to attribute this to "tribes" who are obsessed with war.

why are they the European people the ones who 1) committed the Holocaust against the Jews 2) committed multiple genocides on the native populations of North America, Australia, New Zealand, etc. etc. 3) enslaved the blacks. 3) dropped the nuclear bomb on Japan. I mean damn. At least the end is near.

Perhaps this guy needs some self reflection.


"Tribes" will participate in "organized violence" for as long as there is foreign meddling and occupation.

[pashtun_rise]

Nothing is wrong with pakistan except with corrupt leaders,some bad orginsations....and a bad weather.