Dr Abdul Wahid Soomro (MNA Pakistan Peoples Party)

There is a line dropped by vested interests that Pakistan is a failed state. Many, within Pakistan, too, have picked up the line and quote it as a base for Pakistan bashing.


By no account can Pakistan be deemed as a failed state.
No, Pakistan is not a failed state.
Pakistan is a state that has faced two strategic compulsions since its birth. It has been the pivot of the Great Game in Asia on the one hand, and the focus of Indian hegemonic designs on the other. It made alliances with regional and world powers both for survival against Indian hegemony, and to protect its Muslim identity that included support for all Muslim freedom struggles.(Pakistan is greatly respected throughout the Muslim world for its decades of potent material and moral support: the details of which remain unknown to the public at large because they could not be disclosed publicly).  These compulsions forced us to become a Security State.