The irony of being Pakistan is that without India, it is nothing. It was carved out of India. Its history is the history of India. Its very existence is a sectarian response to India's plurality. Its culture, art and everything else that edifies it comes out of the idea of India. Beginning from Prithvi Raj Chouhan, (and even much much earlier), and through the times to Bhagat Singh, to Gandhi, and Lord Mountbatten, they all belong to both Pakistan and India. So what separates them? Their religious identity. But most unfortunately, (and it is particularly galling in the context) here too, Pakistan does not score. India has more muslims than Pakistan :-)
What can a nearly failed state do to prop up its pathetic birth and existence? Keep hitting India. Is it really worth Pakistan? This is something that every Pakistani must ask himself over and over and over again.
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