A.Q.Khan, the so called father of the Pakistani atomic bomb, recently
wrote in an article that if Pakistan had nuclear capability in 1971,
the then East Pakistan could not have seceded from Pakistan. Pervez
Hoodbhoy, a very famous Pakistani writer and intellectual has
commented on this outrageous claim by exposing the curse of nuclear
bomb on Pakistan. He said if 30,000 atomic bombs could not save the
Soviet Union from collapse, Pakistan would have invited its own
destruction if it had nuclear capability in 1971. The creation of
Pakistan in 1947 was a mortal political blunder and its sustenance on
religious fanaticism is an ongoing catastrophe. A.Q.Khan is another
creation of Pakistani religious political and military miscalculation
who never ventured into the pragmatic sphere of political science
which makes nations and guides to their meaningful existence. There is
every indication that Bangladesh is doing far better than Pakistan.
The Bengali nation does not look to the heavens for its emancipation
from poverty nor has it surrendered its future to religious extremism.
During the last 60 years Pakistan has miserably failed to create a
sense of nationalism because it depended on a basically wrong notion
of nationalism that is religion. Since its creation it promoted
religious fanaticism to keep the country united which has utterly
failed because religion can't be a basis for nation building. Pakistan
is nothing but a miscalculated entity of mutually distrustful
nationalities in the form of the Punjab, Sind, NWFP and Baluchistan. A
very dangerous combination of people standing on the throat of each
other which are kept united with brute force.
The ultimate survival of Pakistan as a country, I don't call it a
nation, depends how soon and how effectively it can free itself from
the curse of religious fanaticism.
Akbar Hussain
Toronto Canada
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