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Quake shows Pakistan needs to invest in infrastructure instead of nukes and arms - Pakistan failing to tackle disaster on such a scale
Time has come for Pakistan to realize, economic and national infrastructure is of highest priority for Pakistani people. With American security guarantee, it does not need nukes and F16s – it needs basic infrastructure and financial strength to run the nation is a balanced fashion.
Pakistan is a small country and the recent quake relief efforts shows how the country has failed to provide the same while refusing India to come in and help the people of Pakistan occupied Kashmir. A few American helicopters and minuscule sporadic relief efforts is far less than needed.
People of Pakistan occupied Kashmir deserves better.
Pakistan's internal contradictions, arising from its complex and tortuous past, are likely to affect its ability to cope with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that has claimed more than 54,000 lives and left more than 2.5 million people homeless.
President Pervez Musharraf's first challenge will be to establish a swift response to redress the victims'' immediate needs as winter looms menacingly. The more redoubtable task of rebuilding the devastated regions'' infrastructure will follow.
But the Pakistani president is severely handicapped on both counts. Firstly, his administration has neither the financial muscle nor the economic sustainability to deal with such a massive tragedy. And more importantly, it is short on people with the expertise to manage the fallout.
Time is working against Pakistan. Every minute lost is costing many lives!
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