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The April 15, 2012 terrorist attack in Afghanistan on Embassies,
Parliament, various places in number of cities, hotel in high security
zone at Kabul etc and in Pakistan where ~ 400 prisoners were
reportedly freed by terrorists from a prison are not occasion for
traditional response (like stale repetition of the strong condemnation
of and resolve to fight these terrorist attacks) from world community.
Rather now the world community instead should seriously work for the
assimilation of Afghanistan and Pakistan with India as given below if
world do not want nukes of Pakistan (a crumbling State) to fall in the
hands of terrorist / fundamentalists:-

(1)- First and foremost the world community has to realize that
political engineering of USA & Allies which they are trying (by talks
to Taliban, Pakistan etc in view of 2014 deadline of NATO troops
withdrawal from Afghanistan) has no chance of success given the past
record of the failure of such political engineering by USA & Allies
post their victory in cold war in Afghanistan when they left
Afghanistan in the hands of fundamentalists and which ultimately
culminated in massive terrorism in India through Kashmir which
reportedly has already claimed the lives of about one hundred thousand
people in the last quarter of century apart from resulting in 9/11
and the presence of NATO forces in Afghanistan post 9/11 for the last
more than a decade with attended massive bloodshed in AF-Pak region.

(2)- The P-6 countries (five UN veto wielding countries USA, Russia,
UK, France, China + Germany) who talked to Iran on this April, 14 and
still planning to talk to Iran in May end regarding threat from
alleged nuclear armament program of Iran will have to change their
priorities in view of this 4/15 terror attack in AF-PAK. Now the
mankind expects from these P-6 countries to spend their sleepless
nights in devising ways and means to ensure that the nukes of
increasingly denuclearizing and crumbling State of Pakistan do not
fall in the hands of all powerful terrorists (fundamentalists) of
AF-Pak.

(3)- But it is easier said than done if Afghanistan & Pakistan (the
theocratic States) are left to themselves to handle this severe
fundamentalist problem. Therefore P-6 has no other alternative than to
usher South Asia into ‘Federation of Secular Democratic SAARC
countries’ (some thing like United States of India in which members
can be Balochistan, Kashmir, Maldives, Afghanistan, North-East, India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, SL Tamil region, Bhutan etc.
and even more members can be carved out from these members) with
‘Federalism’ as given below:-

(A)- If natural resources do not belong exclusively to States /
members of FSDSAARC (USI) and if Sates do not have substantial natural
resources then Federalism has no meaning.

(B)- Apart from bureaucracy Centre has military (armed forces) whereas
States / members of FSDSAARC (USI) have police with them. Therefore
only martial matters like defense, foreign affairs, national (land,
water, air) transport, communication, currency, unemployment
eradication (human rights of right to work) etc should be with federal
government whereas every other subject (civil matters) should be with
States / members of FSDSAARC (USI) . Even except railways & airports
on national / international routes, other railway / air routes are
also to be with States / members of FSDSAARC (USI).

(4)- But by merely re-organizing this sub-continent into FSDSAARC
(USI) will not cure the head-ache of world community unless three
following problems are also taken care of.

(5)- First the World community will have to appreciate the economic
problems and issues involved because of the simple fact that FSDSAARC
(USI) will have ~ 23 % mankind but not only have merely ~ 4 % land
mass but this region is also starved of energy resources and energy
will be in great demand due to this being a developing region which
will require huge natural energy resources for its development.

(6)- Secondly by merely keeping ~ 500 Muslims with ~ 1100 Hindus
(including Boudh, Sikhs, Jains), Christians etc in FSDSAARC (USI) will
not ensure secularism in this region. Because leave aside the hopeless
record of Muslims in Pakistan and Bangladesh in this regard, the
Hindus are also quite capable of indulging in rabid communalism (as
evident from post eighties Ram Mandir / Babri Masjid dispute and
attended riots in which thousands of Muslims have been butchered
including in Gujarat in 2002 and also the way Christians have been
killed in Orissa etc in recent years). Therefore unless Christian west
mobilize and gird-up its religion to take care of the religious
freedom (including conversion) for the people of FSDSAARC (USI),
secularism will remain a mirage in this sub-continent. Otherwise also
unless majority of Hindus (who form the main productive force of
Hindus but are so called Schedule Castes, Schedule Tribes, Backward
Castes, Other Backward Castes etc and therefore terminally demoralized
and that too in a democracy where people's moral is the crucial
factor) change their religion to some religion which will not
recognize / promote such demoralizing social segregation, the Hindu
majority India has no future whatsoever.

(7)- Thirdly though to this inhumane caste system of Hindus the
reservation has contributed immensely and mischievously to sustain it
but it will be a mistake to do away with reservation especially in
government services. In FSDSAARC (USI) the entire population (of all
the States of USI) should be given reservation in government services
on merit commensurate with their proportion (based on any criteria,
category, caste, religion, groups, etc) in population and no
reservation in education or elections. Without such reservation in
government services the politically, economically, socially
historically disadvantaged sections and minorities have no chance of
finding a just place or representation in State apparatus (and to
what extent this non representation will engender injustices and even
cruelties to these disadvantaged sections can be understood by only
those people who live in this sub-continent).

(8)- Therefore world community should urgently start working for the
realization of FSDSAARC (USI) as mentioned above if mankind is to be
rescued from further tribulations on account of Muslim fundamentalism
based terrorism of the order of 4/15. To trigger this process UN
resolution (on the pattern of one regarding Sri Lanka related to war
crimes and human rights violations against SL Tamils) may also be
initiated in relation to Kashmir, Balochistan, N-E etc

Yours truly

Hem Raj Jain

(Author of 'Betrayal of Americanism')