tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323210.post4548290318565965128..comments2023-11-05T15:12:03.559+05:30Comments on M.J. Akbar - The Sunday Guardian : What if Pakistanis land at our border?M J Akbarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14372493873446290094noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8323210.post-20960352490122408642010-02-09T11:42:27.328+05:302010-02-09T11:42:27.328+05:30Talibaan appearing in Islamabad - wont happen this...Talibaan appearing in Islamabad - wont happen this way. I mean these will not look like Talibaan with unkempt beards or the kind you find in Islamabad. Some will have beards and others will be clean shaven. Moreover, the process of takeover will be gradual rather than sudden which will not give people a chance to think about the change. They will be intellectually and emotionally injected to deep sleep. Those, who will have the sense to realize, will leaeve. These people will have the capacity to get visas stamped in their passports 0.01% or even less. Then there will be the fence sitters, who will straddle the cultural (as opposed to ideological) spectrum. These will include people like Mme Shirin Mazari who can hold a drink and support the Talibaan ideology at the same time. The condition will be that the unkempt beards will be kept in small areas and fed with sharia law while the modern looking will keep control of the big cities and towns. Then, of course, will be the rest of Pakistan. There will be lesser possibility of an East Germany/West Genrmany kind of a situation. Fewer from the ordinary citizen will be able to cross over and those caught at the border will be mowed down by guns. So, some bloodshed. But the unkind kind of Pakistan and India that we see emerging will be a nightmare.Ayesha Siddiqahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11456097569664723254noreply@blogger.com