Pakistan is so stable it is BORING

Concordia Journal reports:

“When The Economist called Pakistan “the most dangerous country in the world” last May, Julian Schofield disagreed. He finds the country so stable it’s boring.”

Indeed the Observer’s Jason Burke wrote his own analysis of the country back in January, during those days of panick following Benazir’s death:

“…In the two weeks in December I spent travelling through the backwaters of the country - in rural Sindh, in the belt between the mountains of the North West Frontier and the Indus river, in the interminable suburbs of Rawalpindi - what struck me again and again was not the chaos and political instability, but the tedious grind of everyday life in a country where half the 170 million population still live in rural areas and where for most people each day is tough, precarious and uncertain.”

“…I’m not about to invest in the Pakistani stock market, nor buy a house in Islamabad (not least because the massive real estate boom of recent years makes it impossible) but I’d just point out that in the 15 years I’ve been travelling to, reporting on and living in Pakistan, its unlikely existence has always been continually said to be threatened but has always, albeit chaotically, continued.”

“…Pakistan’s bizarre capacity to absorb shocks that would destroy most nations.”