http://watching-history.blogspot.com/2009/10/future-of-pakistan.html

On the balance, Indians can rest easy that a country that is no longer under the control of the Army would consider India just one of many targets to hate in this wide world. The situation today is a whole lot worse, where India is the sole target of Pakistani nukes purely because the Pakistani army and educated elite are in control.

“Which universe are we talking about? Surely not the one we inhabit.”

So what exactly is your objection? That it is not possible today? In that case, I did preface those two points with the precondition that the Army’s pernicious influence on Pakistani politics needs to be eliminated today.

The larger point is that just physical violence against the jihadis is not a long-term solution. There are enough and more to replace the ones that are taken out. The real key is to undercut the ideological basis.

The other alternative is to strengthen public institutions so that jihadis can actually be prosecuted without the Army intervening on their behalf or the courts playing “revolving door” with convicted terrorists.

Both options are not workable in today’s pakistan, but that does not mean conditions that will make them work cannot be created.

Which universe are we talking about? Surely not the one we inhabit.

I wanted to edit the post to fix this, but the above should read as

For an average pakistani, all of this ideological foundation is provided by the logic of the local Mullah. However, influencing the mullah can only be done after bringing the Pakistani army to its knees and essentially remaking the army into a professional army that does not try to kill all civilian leaders on a regular basis.
This is because the Army plays the clerics against each other to maintain their supremacy, and will not allow any dilution of the violent jihad ideology espoused by these clerics.

For an average pakistani, all of this ideological foundation is provided by the logic of the local Mullah, which implies that after bringing the Pakistani army to its knees (since the Army plays the clerics against each other to maintain their supremacy, and will not allow any dilution of the jihad ideology of these clerics).

With such a focus, the following steps seem like an obvious choice:
1. Bring all clerics under a re-education program to stop preaching hate and follow guidelines, like the deoband clerics in India already do.
2. Change all textbooks at all leves, especially those taught in Madrass
control of the clergy and what they preach to the public

All sounds fine in theory so far. Now, the problem is that the clerics possess the divine authority to override any one else in Pakistan, so they cannot be challenged by non-clerics or non-muslims. By definition, such non-believers cannot challenge any muslim cleric on his or her ideas — any challenger to the ideology must be a Hafiz or higher in the hierarchy of islamic scholars. The only such people with that background are the Indian islamic scholars and clerics who can argue with the Pakistani clerics in their own language.

One possibility is to try a debate in the islamic format between Indian and Pakistani clerics on mass media in Pakistan, in order to erode the “divine sanction” that the pakistani jihadi terrorists pretend to have while spreading hate and mayhem. Anything else will allow the clerics to claim that “islam is in danger” to reap the paranoia of a poorly informed public as a wall around the cleric and his ideology.

Regards.

FIFY.