Pakistani Slumdog Millionaire

After a superb hit of Slumdog Millionaire in India and the world acknowledging the movie with Oscars and Golden Globe, a strange thought ran in my mind. A Pakistani Slumdog Millionaire. And the best part, we have a script in and around the papers world over.

Swat, a tourist location in Pakistan was handed over to the Taliban. The idea being that now the people of Swat would not be killed and uprooted from the retaliations of Taliban. The central character being a father-in-law and son-in-law duo, who accomplished the deal of converting the Swat region, 160 KM from Islamabad, to the Taliban.

The agencies report Government did it only because of the will of people in Swat region, but a mere common sense would envision Taliban taking physical hold of the area, police running for their life, all the theaters and music stores burnt, journalist's killed and channels stopped is this the end .... no just think of the atrocities against the women-kind. No studying, No moving out of home, only burkhas. The Government calls it "peace move".

How can a Government justify its stand when the peace process was reached after the Taliban had be-headed their opponents, Killed women and children, burnt schools and colleges, uprooted the whole of government infrastructure including an airport..... It is unbelievable.

How could the government ever have seen a "peace", when it is not even a "million dollar question" What Next? Taliban would readily take control and look for new opportunities to extend their influence in and around the area.

With this peace deal, it will do a lot of damage to peace of Obama administration and India. Pakistan gets around $6 bn in aid from US, 70 % of which is miss-spent. How on earth would US justify this? What would be the next move of US as well as Pakistan and the commentators around the world.

India's reaction would be worth watching. With a concerned face India also could be laughing within at the current situation in Pakistan. Remember that the bottom line is that it is men who are leading this organisations are playing the game. Taliban is Taliban only because of the men who run it. And for India's advantage, Pakistan is run by hundreds of people with such Institutions but with different purposes. So you would find Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of Lashker and Taliban not looking at a sole objective. There have been media reports of rift between them as Taliban is attacking Pakistan where as people like Saeed and Maulana Farook of Hizbul Mujahideen are core Pakistanis in their heart. This would lead to the whole system fighting each other and with neither the Pakistani government nor ISI being able to control them would cause a collapse of the entire system breaking Pakistan into numerous parts and war lords running the system.

A good script right. Pakistani Slumdog Millionaire