Is Pakistan a Warrior State? Or a Failed State?
The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World by Canada's McGill University Professor Thazha Varkey Paul, a graduate of India's Jawaharlal Nehru University, describes Pakistan as a "warrior state" and a "conspicuous failure". It is among a slew of recently published anti-Pakistan books by mainly Indian and western authors which paint Pakistan as a rogue state which deserves to be condemned, isolated and sanctioned by the international community. As Pakistanis celebrate 74th anniversary of the 1940 Lahore Resolution calling for the partition of India, it is important to examine TV Paul's narrative about Pakistan and fact-check the assertions underlying his narrative. Here's a point-by-point response to Paul's narrative: 1. Paul argues: Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state. In 1947 at the time of independence, Pakistan was described as a "Nissen hut or a tent" by ...