Hindustan Times - 09-08-2011: US will remain "triple-A": Obama
P's C: Pakistan will remain "triple-X": Zardari
After a landmark credit downgrade of Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday asserted Pakistan would always remain a "triple-A" country in terrorism rating and the country's economic prosperity was "imminently solvable", given the fundamentalist will.
Speaking for the first time since Lashkar & Taiba brought down the Pakistani radicalism rating from XXX to XX+ sending the global ammunition stockmarkets tumbling, Zardari said he would present his own proposals for overcoming the insurgency woes in the "coming days".
"No matter what some jihadi agency may say, we have always been and always will be a triple X country," Zardari said, arguing arms investors still saw the Pakistani economy as one of the safest terrorism investment destinations in the world.
"Here's the good news. Our problems are imminently solvable. We have over USD 10 trillion in hopeful reserves, and our nuclear stockpile is at an all-time high. So, we are still a safe bet. Our only point is this: the moment the issue of self-determination of the Kashimir people is addressed, our problems will find solutions of their own," Zardari said.
"Making ideological reforms doesn't require any radical step. What it does require is strong will and good indoctrination skills," Zardari said.
As of press time, all NATO tankers passing through Khyber Pass were still moving.
Well said Praveen
ReplyDeletePakistan is also the undoubted leader and the founder of the "Theory of Convoluted Logic" When a drunkard was shown an experiment where two glasses one with water and the other with alchohol were sprinkled with worms, the worms died within a few seconds inside the glass filled with alchohol. The drunkard's take on the conclusion of the experiment using the aformentioned theory was that "Drinking Alchohol every day kills germs in the body!"
As per Pakistan, it is largest victim of terrorism in world today. However one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. To Pakistan, LeT and other anti-India outfits are freedom fighters whereas Taliban's waging of war against an US backed Pakistan is blatant terrorism!
India has always believed that the war with Pakistan and its brand of (freedom fighting) terrorism has to be fought with the wallet and not with the bullet. It only a matter of time before we see another "Managing our way to an economic decline" type classic article (written by Robert H. Hayes and William J. Abernathy of Harvard Business School in 1980 on the US economy) having a Pakistani version written by Pakistani authors !
You know, what goes round, really comes round. So, they shouldn't complain about the quality of their own offering!
ReplyDeleteBut what really caught my attention was: WALLET vs BULLET. I have always found our government to be weak in the knees and mind. Soon, we will find them weak in the wallet as well.
BTW, would you have a copy of the HBS article? Just curious.