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Confrontation After freedom India and Pakistan have fought four wars including the Kargil war and there in no end in sight that confrontation between both the countries will end soon. Pakistan was created as an Islamic nation But more than 33 crore Muslims live in India, a number that is more than total of the Pakistan’s population. India is emerging as the second most fastest economy and it is being expected that in next 20 years it will be a world power. But on the other hand Pakistan is in its worst time after independence. According to some think tanks it is almost near to get the status of a failed state. When India was launching its maiden lunar mission into the space, Pakistani government was begging for financial help from the world powers but no one came ahead to bail the nation out of crisis except IMF. But Why this is happening?

Dictators The reason is very simple. Successive rule of military dictators is responsible for the social, educational and economical decline. It were the military rulers who ‘led’ Pakistan to wars against India and when they got defeated they used political leaders to share the ‘burden’. Both the nations lost a lot in these wars. Pakistani rulers spent more on defense budget than on education and removal of poverty and illiteracy. Excessive expenditure on ‘defense’ has provided them arms and poverty and illiteracy have provided them with thousands of ‘jehadies’. Though they have succeeded to bleed their enemies for a short time but in long term they have brought their nation almost near to a collapse. Pakistan’s policy of confrontation with India, in disguise, has forced it to be dependent on foreign nations. Pakistani rulers, blinded, because of their anti-India policies, did everything at every cost. Because of this ‘blindness’ they had even forgot their real ‘national interests’ and today Pakistan is paying the price for this blindness.

Option No nation can change its neighbors but enemies can be made friends. Pakistan is going through its worst time since independence and for some extent its dependency on foreign nations and anti-India stand is responsible. To steer it out of this crisis Pakistani leadership will have to apply a new approach to normalize its relations with neighboring countries. It can get huge benefits by increasing cooperation with neighbors India and China that are the fastest emerging economies of the world. This is the only way left with Pakistani leadership for saving their nation from collapse.