I feel sorry for Pakistan’s civil war.It’s the highest stakes civil war the world has seen since the Iranian Revolution, or maybe even since the Chinese Civil War turned China commie in 1949. Yet, your average John Q. Public, Joe and Josephine Average, and Jane Doe don’t even seem remotely interested.
Part of the problem is the perception that Pakistan’s civil war lacks compelling props, settings, and characters. The French Revolution had Versailles, the guillotine and Marie Antoinette. The Russian Revolution had the Kremlin, Lenin and Anastasia. The Spanish Civil War had the foul Francisco Franco, Picasso’s Guernica mural and Hemingway’s For Whom The Bell Tolls (Spoiler alert: the bell tolls for thee).
But Pakistan does have great props and characters. With 180 million people, it’s the sixth most populous nation on Earth. There’s gotta be at least a couple telegenic charmers in there somewhere. Hell, Bin Laden’s supposedly in there somewhere, too. He’s got a video camera, right?
As for props, Pakistan has around 100 nuclear warheads. Rock beats scissors, paper beats rock, and I’m pretty sure nuclear warhead beats guillotine.
As for settings, Pakistan has some of the world’s highest mountain peaks. The fearsome K2 is in Pakistani Kashmir. Pakistan also has one of the largest KFC chains in Asia. Hemingway and Picasso would have killed for that kind of material.
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