[DAWN] Blah blah blah article that concludes the Pak govt lacks vision.
Someday somebody might look into "the roots of colonialism." Each tale is different, and some colonies were worse than others, but a common thread was natives who were unwilling to abide by civilized norms in relations with Europeans. North Africa was the home of pirates from about the time it was colonized by Moslems. India was the home of warring dynasties who were as rapacious with each other as the English, Portuguese, or French were. Spanish oppression of their colonies was pretty horrible, but the people they displaced used to rip the hearts out of people. Subsaharan Africa was pretty uniformly awful.
Why were hospitals better in Pakistain in colonial times? Because the condescending colonialists assumed the "white man's burden" and took care of their charges, not perfectly but better than the current crop of ruling babus. |