Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Only three weeks back Britain feted Pakistani COAS General Bajawa with state honors and now this week, President Trump is sitting down with him along with his intelligence General and the hired Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Whitehouse to tell him that – “get me out of Afghanistan and I will restore all military and economic aid to you”. We do not know how the meeting concluded, simply by the mood of the participant, it would appear it went very well.
How did these Generals in Pakistan become so important?
After the British rule was ejected out of India in 1947, they left with displeasure and but not before building an everlasting relationship with newly created Pakistan. As opposed to building relationship with political leaders there, they focused their energies on military leaders. And so came the Cold War and the America threw in its lot behind military leaders in Pakistan. The Western Press which is mostly hostile to India, ignored the murder of democracy instead supported generals like Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan (although he ordered Bangladesh butchery in 1971) and others like Zia UL Haq and Perez Musharraf. Military assistance was part of this support.
With new weapons, Pakistan started four wars with India and lost them all. But sooner than later as an ally, Pakistan was armed again and again with free gift of weapons and was allowed to make nuclear weapons, although same status is not accorded to Iran or North Korea or Libya.
It was Pakistan who helped and supported the Taliban fight with America and resulted in the deaths of 6,000 Americans. It was Pakistan who hid Osama Bin Laden for ten years. However, all this is forgotten in the name of “- get me out of Afghan quagmire.”
Alternatively in Myanmar, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Syria, etc. Generals have been sanctioned. They cannot even travel to US on a private visit, or to UN on an official mission, let alone visiting the Whitehouse.
The foregoing does not speak well of US as well as Britain, who in fact is behind the scene determines the policy for US.
It is a bad call for democratically elected leaders of America and Britain to sit down with military leaders of a country who, in fact, wish not merely evil but the worst.
West’s Love Affair with Pakistani Generals
Only three weeks back Britain feted Pakistani COAS General Bajawa with state honors and now this week, President Trump is sitting down with him along with his intelligence General and the hired Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Whitehouse to tell him that – “get me out of Afghanistan and I will restore all military and economic aid to you”. We do not know how the meeting concluded, simply by the mood of the participant, it would appear it went very well.
How did these Generals in Pakistan become so important?
After the British rule was ejected out of India in 1947, they left with displeasure and but not before building an everlasting relationship with newly created Pakistan. As opposed to building relationship with political leaders there, they focused their energies on military leaders. And so came the Cold War and the America threw in its lot behind military leaders in Pakistan. The Western Press which is mostly hostile to India, ignored the murder of democracy instead supported generals like Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan (although he ordered Bangladesh butchery in 1971) and others like Zia UL Haq and Perez Musharraf. Military assistance was part of this support.
With new weapons, Pakistan started four wars with India and lost them all. But sooner than later as an ally, Pakistan was armed again and again with free gift of weapons and was allowed to make nuclear weapons, although same status is not accorded to Iran or North Korea or Libya.
It was Pakistan who helped and supported the Taliban fight with America and resulted in the deaths of 6,000 Americans. It was Pakistan who hid Osama Bin Laden for ten years. However, all this is forgotten in the name of “- get me out of Afghan quagmire.”
Alternatively in Myanmar, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Syria, etc. Generals have been sanctioned. They cannot even travel to US on a private visit, or to UN on an official mission, let alone visiting the Whitehouse.
The foregoing does not speak well of US as well as Britain, who in fact is behind the scene determines the policy for US.
It is a bad call for democratically elected leaders of America and Britain to sit down with military leaders of a country who, in fact, wish not merely evil but the worst.
Cheers……
Some of the channels that are seen to follow the official line could also be advised to let up.