Pakistan; About to fall the militant Islam?

**tibilicus** · 03-03-2009, 19:32

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7921430.stm

As this latest bit of news clearly shows Pakistan is on the brink of failure.

It's central government is being openly humiliated by gunmen in the light of day by muslim extremists gunning down foreigners and those supposedly in charge in Pakistan are left helpless. Outstretched and loosing the battle with the Taliban on the Afghan border the question has to be asked what does the future hold for Pakistan?

More importantly can the rise of these extremists even be stopped? Or will this sort of ideology continue to spread like a disease and take root else where?

Edit: A mod couldn't by any chance edit the thread title to read "About to fall to militant Islam" Instead of "about to fall the militant Islam". My bad.

Cheers.

**lars573** · 03-03-2009, 19:43

One word: India.

**Fragony** · 03-03-2009, 20:04

Been like this forever, the Pakistani government has zero control over her border with Afghanistan, nothing new.

**tibilicus** · 03-03-2009, 20:07

Originally Posted by Fragony

Been like this forever, the Pakistani government has zero control over her border with Afghanistan, nothing new.

Ah yes but Pakistan has never had zero control in other regions like it does now. It is also slowly loosing towns to the Taliban now which is also new. Fair enough it's the same story but it's getting worse..

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 03-03-2009, 20:16

nevermind

**Furunculus** · 03-03-2009, 20:18

nasty combination of:
> fiercely independant pashtun tribes
> heavily federated northwestern provinces
> militant islamist ideology
> horribly corrupt pakistani gov't

if pakistan does go down the tubes then i sincerely hope Centcom is on standby with cruise missiles and special forces to permanently remove the problem of nuclear weapons in pakistan.

**Fragony** · 03-03-2009, 20:18

Originally Posted by tibilicus

Ah yes but Pakistan has never had zero control in other regions like it does now. It is also slowly loosing towns to the Taliban now which is also new. Fair enough it's the same story but it's getting worse..

Yeah it's pretty bad, and still people complain we fight the Taliban.

**LittleGrizzly** · 03-03-2009, 20:27

How could we support the Pakistan goverment against these forces ?

Seems like a bit of a catch 22, if we intervene we give some great pr to the taliban to use for recruiting... it seems if we do nothing Pakistan may be lost anyway...