On the topic of what Pakistanis need to do to get elected, here is a Pakistani take on Aatish Taseers article that rubbishes the idea that Pakistani politicians need to hate India to get elected. The "hate India" is a charcteristic, he says, of the military establishment and the faux liberals of Pakistan
http://criticalppp.com/archives/53628 Recommending Aatish Taseer - by Alamgir Mendal >For the urban (fake) liberal chatterati, this profound insight is > unsettling. Most cannot come to terms with critical questions about the > hazy myths and drawing room gossip that they hold as sacred truths > regarding Pakistani history and Partition. Hence, it is very difficult for > them to grasp Aatish’s very valid argument that the India-phobia shared by > the security establishment has been the primary factor for fuelling violent > Islamofascism in Pakistan. > >For the venal, shallow and fickle de-politicized urban elites, the India > phobia of the security establishment defines them as well. Their virulent > hatred for elected political leaders blinds them to the fact that the vast > majority of Pakistanis who vote in PPP and other groups do not share their > warped obsession with India. Pakistan’s elected leaders in the last three > decades have all done their best to restore good relations with India > (BB-Rajiv, NS-AV, AAZ-MMS) only for their efforts to be scuttled by the > security establishment. shiv
