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                 "PROMPT and severe steps are needed to preserve Pakistan from practically going bankrupt, but our leaders seem comfortable with relying on higher levels of foreign funding to maintain some semblance of sustained economic prosperity." It was possible to write these words yesterday. They weren't, though. They are mentioned in an editorial from the Pakistan Times commemorating the 11th anniversary of independence in 1958.   The same comment also contains additional laments that are still relevant today. For instance, "The political arena has been the safe haven of those cursed with limitless greed and limited talent for almost a decade. Every season has been one of interest, and every year has been one of catastrophe. A perpetual state of instability almost seems to be the only constant in our political existence.   One might go even earlier, to Mohammad Ali Jinnah's speech to the Constituent Assembly 75 years prior, when India was on the ve

                 The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is currently in power in India, is carrying out Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision last year to designate Pakistan's Independence Day as "Partition Horrors Remembrance Day," which is yet another indication that there are slim chances of any thawing in relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.   The action sparked new tensions between the two nations, with Islamabad sharply criticizing the BJP government for its "mischievous behavior."   The Indian action was sharply condemned in a statement released by the Foreign Office on Thursday. "True to its customary revisionist goal, the BJP-RSS-led dispensation has once again sought to reference the sad events and mass migration that took place in the aftermath of Independence in 1947 in a hypocritical and biased manner."   The statement said, "It is reprehensible that the BJP government is willfully seeking to play with the