Where is Pakistan headed?
Lalit Shastri Today when I asked a friend across the border, who is a top Pakistani journalist, to contribute an article focussing on what some leading personalities in his country have to say about the Kashmir issue, he brushed aside my request saying what to talk of Kashmir when they can’t keep their own house in order. The writ of the elected Pakistani Government, excluding some parts of the Punjab province, does not run in other parts of the country beleaguered and besieged by violence, terror and sectarian strife, he went on to observe. We have Baluchistan, which is endowed with huge natural wealth. Instead of using the massive deposits of copper, gold and coal for the growth and development of the country, what we are witnessing in Baluchistan is endless violence, my friend said. When reminded of Sher Shah, the medieval ruler, who has the credit of building the grand trunk road connecting Kolkata with Peshawar, and told that the situation of law and order during
