Will Pakistan Survive ?

The well-being of any country is predicated on the harmony between internal and external security. The internal fabric of Pakistan is getting vitiated by the day. The spate of suicide bombings is indicative of the levels of intolerance that has consumed Pakistani society. Externally, the country remains most vulnerable in strategic and diplomatic terms as evidenced by the Raymond Davis affair.

The internal ferment and external pulls that Pakistan is being subjected to, has raised doubts, as never before, about the survivability of the country as such.

Appropriately, CLAWS has commissioned a study by Dr Suba Chandran, Director IPCS, on the very question that continues to generate debate, wherein the opposite viewpoints are based on equally robust arguments.

Dr Suba Chandran presented his research and study on the issue at the CLAWS campus under the title ‘Will Pakistan survive?’ The presentation was made in the presence of a very distinguished panel and audience. Mr Mohan Guruswamy, chaired the Round Table, The other panelists were Mr Rana Banerjee, former Special Secretary – R&AW, and Air Vice Marshal Kapil Kak, Additional Director at the Centre for Air Power Studies.