Developement in Sindh

The Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) organized a talk on, "Developments in Sindh in Face of Growing Talibanisation in Pakistan" at the Conference Hall, CLAWS Office, New Delhi. Mr. Zulfiqar Shah, Executive Director, The Institute for Social Movements, Pakistan, spoke exclusively on the topic. The talk was chaired by Maj Gen (Retd) Dhruv C Katoch, Director CLAWS, and was attended by all faculty members.

Executive Summary:

• Statecraft and political narrative in Pakistan still revolves around religion.
• In the phenomenon of Talibanisation of Pakistan, the influence of Arabic culture cannot be put aside.
• Talibanisation of Pakistan cannot be comprehended until and unless state building in Pakistan is deliberated.
• Partition has moulded the thought structure and state building in Pakistan.
• "Strategic depth‟ and "strategic death‟ are the two schools of thought in the discourse on Talibanisation of Pakistan.
• The Taliban has eliminated tribal and social leaders in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and has talibanised the region.
• Sindh has by and large remained a secular region by holding up the advances of Taliban into the region.
• If Sindh gets talibanised, the whole of Pakistan will be talibanised.
• Taliban has terrorised the Hindus to bring about demographic change.
• In Pakistan, other than ethnic conflict, there is also the conflict with the federation.
• Pakistan will be able to exist only if the state is built on the grounds of Indus Valley civilization.