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Pakistan will be failed state by 2015: U.S. intelligence


NEW DELHI, FEB. 13. Pakistan will be a ``failed'' state by 2015 as it will be affected by civil war, complete Talibanisation and struggle for control of its nuclear weapons, premier U.S. intelligence agencies have said in an assessment report.

Forecasting a ``Yugoslavia-like fate'' for Pakistan, the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a jointly prepared Global Futures Assessment Report have said that ``by year 2015 Pakistan would be a failed state, ripe with civil war, bloodshed, inter-provincial rivalries and a struggle for control of its nuclear weapons and complete Talibanisation.''

``Pakistan will not recover easily from decades of political and economic mismanagement, divisive policies, lawlessness, corruption and ethnic friction,'' said the report quoted by the former Pakistan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, in an article in The South Asia Tribune.

Titled `Will Pakistan Army invade Balochistan as per the NIC-CIA Plan,' the former senior diplomat said ``in the context of Balochistan, one would like to refer to the 2015 NIC report. It forecast a Yugoslavia-like fate for Pakistan. — PTI
Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Monday, Feb 14, 2005