Dr. Shashi Tharoor

It's also, to paraphrase Voltaire on Prussia, a situation where India is a state that has an army. Pakistan is an army that has a state. And that army really controls the state, runs the state, controls the largest share of that country's GDP and governmental budget, larger than any army of any country in the world controls of its GDP and national budget.

It's also, to paraphrase Voltaire on Prussia, a situation where India is a state that has an army. Pakistan is an army that has a state. And that army really controls the state, runs the state, controls the largest share of that country's GDP and governmental budget, larger than any army of any country in the world controls of its GDP and national budget.

So for the army to continue its disproportionate dominance of Pakistan, it needs to be able to have enough external demons in addition to the demons it has nurtured in its own backyard, in order to be able to point to the fact that it is the sole savior of its people. It's a very, very sad and pathetic story.

So for the army to continue its disproportionate dominance of Pakistan, it needs to be able to have enough external demons in addition to the demons it has nurtured in its own backyard, in order to be able to point to the fact that it is the sole savior of its people. It's a very, very sad and pathetic story.

So for the army to continue its disproportionate dominance of Pakistan, it needs to be able to have enough external demons in addition to the demons it has nurtured in its own backyard, in order to be able to point to the fact that it is the sole savior of its people. It's a very, very sad and pathetic story.

The Osama bin Laden story was merely the tip of a very, very large mountain, I'm afraid, of this kind of thing. Hillary Clinton rather memorably said, as Secretary of State,

The Osama bin Laden story was merely the tip of a very, very large mountain, I'm afraid, of this kind of thing. Hillary Clinton rather memorably said, as Secretary of State,

The Osama bin Laden story was merely the tip of a very, very large mountain, I'm afraid, of this kind of thing. Hillary Clinton rather memorably said, as Secretary of State,

When Pakistan has tried to plead victim about its own terrorist problems with a group called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, initially created by Pakistan, but which has deemed Pakistan to be insufficiently Islamist to its taste. And that has turned out to be attacking Pakistan's military and political institutions.

When Pakistan has tried to plead victim about its own terrorist problems with a group called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, initially created by Pakistan, but which has deemed Pakistan to be insufficiently Islamist to its taste. And that has turned out to be attacking Pakistan's military and political institutions.

When Pakistan has tried to plead victim about its own terrorist problems with a group called the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, initially created by Pakistan, but which has deemed Pakistan to be insufficiently Islamist to its taste. And that has turned out to be attacking Pakistan's military and political institutions.

Hillary Clinton said, well, if you nurture vipers in your backyard, some of them would turn around and bite you. And I think that was absolutely the right metaphor. That's what Pakistan has done. Vipers in your backyard is really a case of to mix up the animals, the chickens coming home to roost in Pakistan. Very sad story. But that's the problem we're living with next door to us.

Hillary Clinton said, well, if you nurture vipers in your backyard, some of them would turn around and bite you. And I think that was absolutely the right metaphor. That's what Pakistan has done. Vipers in your backyard is really a case of to mix up the animals, the chickens coming home to roost in Pakistan. Very sad story. But that's the problem we're living with next door to us.

Hillary Clinton said, well, if you nurture vipers in your backyard, some of them would turn around and bite you. And I think that was absolutely the right metaphor. That's what Pakistan has done. Vipers in your backyard is really a case of to mix up the animals, the chickens coming home to roost in Pakistan. Very sad story. But that's the problem we're living with next door to us.

Yeah, but you left out a very important force, unfortunately, in this equation, and that is China. China is sitting on our northern borders, nibbling away at our land. They have a long standing frontier dispute with India. And Pakistan has been reduced to a client state of China over the years. China's single largest project under its Belt and Road Initiative is

Yeah, but you left out a very important force, unfortunately, in this equation, and that is China. China is sitting on our northern borders, nibbling away at our land. They have a long standing frontier dispute with India. And Pakistan has been reduced to a client state of China over the years. China's single largest project under its Belt and Road Initiative is

Yeah, but you left out a very important force, unfortunately, in this equation, and that is China. China is sitting on our northern borders, nibbling away at our land. They have a long standing frontier dispute with India. And Pakistan has been reduced to a client state of China over the years. China's single largest project under its Belt and Road Initiative is

is a massive highway through Pakistan called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which is of inestimable economic value to China because goods coming from the Suez Canal and from the Gulf countries can now be offloaded at the port of Gwadar in the southwestern tip of Pakistan, in Balochistan, Pakistan's Balochistan province, and transported on this Chinese-built highway all the way directly into western China.

is a massive highway through Pakistan called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which is of inestimable economic value to China because goods coming from the Suez Canal and from the Gulf countries can now be offloaded at the port of Gwadar in the southwestern tip of Pakistan, in Balochistan, Pakistan's Balochistan province, and transported on this Chinese-built highway all the way directly into western China.

is a massive highway through Pakistan called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which is of inestimable economic value to China because goods coming from the Suez Canal and from the Gulf countries can now be offloaded at the port of Gwadar in the southwestern tip of Pakistan, in Balochistan, Pakistan's Balochistan province, and transported on this Chinese-built highway all the way directly into western China.