"Pakistan’s rogue army runs a shattered state"

This Financial Times article makes some strong points:

1. Osama Bin Laden did not just accidentally land up in Abbottabad; he was the guest of the Pakistani Army in their garrison town.
2. Pakistani Army is not fighting against Jihad in South Asia, IT IS THE SOURCE OF IT
3. Charges against Pakistani Army include - aiding both US and its enemies in Afghanistan, trading in nuclear technology with the worst countries, and conducting terrorist operations including the 2008 attacks in Mumbai.
   
4. When the "impractical utopia for India's muslims in 1947," the country of Pakistan, failed to take off, the Army moved in. It led the country into ruinous wars, and ended up consuming one-fourth of the country's budget every year.
   
5. Pakistan defined itself by being "not India." Then in the 1980's a hateful Islamic ideology was spread among the people of Pakistan to keep alive an enmity of India.

This validates a lot of views. That by focusing on Islam as the source of problems in Pakistan people are barking up the wrong tree. Islam is merely the tool being used by the elite in the Army. They have found that religion sells among the masses. If for some reason, religion were to disappear as a cause, the elite will find some other way to control the same masses.

By the way, US aid to the military suits the Army just fine. The military gets the money to spend on themselves, but also for spending to keep their primacy among the people. That is also part of the reason why US is hated by the Pakistani people - some have figured out that by supporting the Army, the US is not just complicit in, but is also fully responsible for the current state of affairs in Pakistan. This is the same realization that dawned on people in Tunisia (whose head was supported by France), Egypt (US sponsored head), and Yemen (again, US supported head).

The article does not go far enough in tracing responsibility. Military itself is a tool being used by the economic elite. A few families run Pakistan through the Army. The solution, therefore, is not religious; it is economic. Greater opportunities for the masses will give them a brighter view of the future, through a stake in the future of the country and a way to control their own destiny. This is exactly what people in Libya, Syria and many other places in the Middle East are fighting for.