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Pakistan’s Way Forward: An Integrated Strategy Disengagement, Realignment, and Empowerment can help Pakistan find its way out of the quagmire and move forward. It cannot hope to transform itself unless it Disengages itself from overt and covert conflicts; external and internal, Realigns its foreign and economic policy focus from the West to the East, and Empowers its people through genuine and not ‘manipulated or rigged or hijacked’ democracy. It is a cliché to say that Pakistan faces an existential threat from extremist forces. The security establishment is seen by the United States as vital to winning the “War on Terror”. Pakistan’s so -called Islamic parties and groups never get tired of blaming America for all the country’s problems. The milita ry has traditionally blamed the politicians. The Americans blame the extremists and terrorists for Pakistan’s current woes. So do Pakistan’s liberals. In the context of the recent past and the country’s history, Pakistan’s biggest tragedy (and the principa l reason for its break-up) was and has been the domination of its polity and power structures by the army which is largely responsible for the failing national security state that Pakistan is today. Pakistan’s greatest challenge is not extremism. It is whe ther it can transform itself from a security state that continues to behave with a Cold War mindset whilst the past three decades have seen the world change from a bi- polar to a uni-polar and then to a multi-polar world. Army’s most powerful external ally has been the United States, particularly its defense and security establishment. Internally, the religious right-wing parties and big media have been its two principal allies while the military establishment has historically protected the interests of the rural and urban elites to ensure their support. Until and unless the axis of trouble, that is the axis of Army, the United States and the right-wing is broken, neither the reconstruction of the Pakistani state nor the so-called democratization of Pakistan will alter the fundamen tal nature of the security state or bring peace or prosperity to Pakistan’s 180 million people, nearly seventy per cent whom live below the poverty line of $2 a day.
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