Fixing Pakistan's Problems...

"The root cause is, to repeat: We have built for ourselves an 'image' which depicts us as being what most of us are not. 'Prejudice' or 'bias' notwithstanding, we have to improve our image. This entails our evolving into being regarded by the peoples of the rest of the world in which we live as rational and reasonable - and this will not only take a long time, but it is an extremely tall order. It is not impossible, but improbable, that it will happen during the lifetime of most of us. To make literate and to profoundly educate over 150 million people is no joke with a birth rate such as we have - ten births per minute."

By Ardeshir Cowasjee

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/20021117.htm

Pakistan placed among dysfunctional states

Sad...but predictable.

WASHINGTON, June 24: Seven of the world’s 10 most dysfunctional countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, an annual survey says. The state of affairs obtaining in the seven countries is due largely to continuing mayhem either in Somalia or in Sudan.

The top 10, in order, are Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad, Iraq, Congo, Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Pakistan and the Central African Republic.

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The index uses 12 social, economic, political, and military indicators to rank 177 states in order of their vulnerability to violent internal conflict and the deterioration of their civil society. It is compiled annually by the independent magazine Foreign Policy and Fund for Peace, an independent research organisation.—AP