“The United States of Asia”

Let’s build a future of our own

The state of the uni-polar world has generated unchecked governance and caused irreparable loss and change of psyche of billions of people in the world. The change has given birth to many complex problems that were not known to modern systems of governance. The use of civil airplanes as a weapon to attack the Twin Towers in New York was senseless and brutal that killed thousands of innocent people. This triggered an angry mode of reactionary governance. The world watched redefinition of sovereignty, loss of role of UN, loss of tools of dialogue conflict resolution and imposition of feudalism. Remotely operated weapons like drones are used to kill indiscriminately, which in reaction are creating suicide bombers.

Due to extreme poverty, millions are ready to become suicide bombers and waiting for their turn in poor countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan etc, where unemployment rates are high. For every drone attack, there is a suicide attack in retaliation as well. Is anyone thinking of controlling this unique war?

Technically, there should have been a detailed research and inquiry into the Twin Tower accident ab initio under the aegis of the UN. The process should have found the criminals and punished them severely. But the ground reality is contrary to the above. The US is in revenge mode on its own, going for hot pursuits, destabilising the governments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Iraq, and Central Asia. The process of revenge continues till date while the UN is conspicuously absent.

In Pakistan and most of Asia, people had never witnessed a person in a diplomatic car kill people on the roads of a major city in broad daylight, like it was scene out of a movie. The weakness of governance was apparent when a criminal was given a “princely” protocol and allowed to leave from jail without court orders to board a waiting plane. The prisoner had access to laptop, internet, satellite phone, food picked out of a la carte menu from a five star hotel etc. Where were sovereignty and judicial system of Pakistan then? The perception of common citizen about the system and governance in Pakistan has suffered irreparably and people have lost trust in the system and the managers of the system. This has triggered uncontrollable terrorism, poverty, unemployment, and a loss of capacity to rule. Is anyone in the world thinking about peace, fairness, future of youth, elimination of hunger, poverty, corruption and moral deterioration? The answer seems to be a resounding no.

About 76 percent population in Pakistan is aged below 25 years. The government of Pakistan has never tried to ensure that all able hands will get an opportunity to earn livelihood. Thousands of the poor, hungry and unemployed opt to become suicide bombers. The common sense dictates to control misplaced perceptions and fears and the rule of law to be reinforced. The mechanisms of conflict resolution should be made to work and succeed.

We have witnessed skewed type of diplomacy, where interests change and define friends and foes. World has witnessed the fall of Shah of Iran, Saddam Husain, Hosni Mubarak, Qadafi, Zia-ul-Haq, King Faisal, Osama bin Laden. All of them were once great friends of the US. All of them enjoyed absolute power in their countries. All of them were ruling without democracy and with absolute violations of human rights. All of them faced disgrace and un-natural deaths. All of them were personally extremely corrupt and managed to keep the people very poor.

I am witness to a plan in which Balochistan would be separated from Pakistan soon in order to facilitate Central Asian states access to the sea. The project is planned to be completed during the next 10-15 years. Afghanistan will also be divided into three countries for the purpose. I gave a detailed briefing to the government, chief of army staff and others but no one appeared to be serious in controlling the fate of the country and interests of millions of the poor. They went ahead and killed a great leader like Sardar Akbar Bugti. He was only asking for jobs for thousands of educated youth in Balochistan. There was neither police report nor an investigation and the killer was allowed to leave the country with full honour.

We need to create a ‘United States of Asia’. The continent has about four billion people, fertile soils, educated and trained manpower, wealth and nuclear countries. A do-nothing option will result in hysteric governments, local wars, change in the geographic boundaries of many countries and a new form of colonisation. I believe that the creation of United States of Asia with members from Koreas, Japan, China, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asian states, Turkey and the entire Arab World can resolve the problems of wars and poverty, encourage peace and help sovereign states in achieving peace and prosperity.