What do you think is most grave historical blunder which if was not made, the world would have been a better place today?
If Columbus hadnt discovered Ameriá:D
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But wasn’t that a good development in human history?
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If Columbus hadnt discovered Ameriá:D
bilkul saHeeH...i call his discovery of America a 'discovery of shaitaanistaan' :D
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you too KKF?
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I dont love everything about the US but they have accomplished quite a bit for humanity. Tonnes of scientific feats. Including the internet you are using right now.
Credit where its due. The americans have done really well. Nobody is perfect.
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nuclear weapons 
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I thought internet was developed in CERN…
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If not US, who deserves to be number one and why?
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in words of altaf hussain of mqm, the creation of paksitan :)
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Unplanned partition of India it was too sudden that people started killing each other, they must have done it in phases:(
in words of altaf hussain of mqm, the creation of paksitan :)
Don't turn it into politics of pakistan please:)
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Unplanned partition of India it was too sudden that people started killing each other, they must have done it in phases:(
Indeed unplanned and uncertain partition of Indo-Pak was a blunder in history. When people have borne British rule for century, a few years more with properly planned partitition might have saved the massacre that followed. But on the other hand, one can argue that there was no time for planing considering the sudden communal riots that began. Normally, people of the area gave more importance to their castes over creed, but in those times, we don't see such harmony on the basis of castes and bradris.
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Nuclear weapons is one.
Total war is another
Empire is the yet another
Capitalism the one more...
Capitalism + Empire.... you havent got a hope unless you resist.
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From wiki:
The origins of the Internet reach back to research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks. The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. The commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2011, more than 2.2 billion people – nearly a third of Earth’s population — use the services of the Internet
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But who invented the Internets?
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Indeed unplanned and uncertain partition of Indo-Pak was a blunder in history. When people have borne British rule for century, a few years more with properly planned partitition might have saved the massacre that followed. But on the other hand, one can argue that there was no time for planing considering the sudden communal riots that began. Normally, people of the area gave more importance to their castes over creed, but in those times, we don't see such harmony on the basis of castes and bradris.
The cabinet mission plan of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was the best deal, he guaranteed provincial autonomy to every province but the statement of Nehru that in future if need arise congress can change the plan, Jinnah agreed to cabinet mission plan in principle but nehru's reaction aroused his suspicion and rest is history.
People of undivided India were not ready for partition nor they ever took demand of Pakistan very seriously, for majority of people Pakistan was bargaining tool of Jinnah to get rights of Muslims. The massacre of Punjab divided people so much that in rest of years in Indo-Pak war one set of Punjabis fought another set of Punjabees with zeal:D, in fact the communal problem that could have been solved got compounded after creation of Pakistan that both major communities started living in antipathy and mutual hatred:(, though creation of Pakistan brought peace in both Punjab and antipathy everywhere else in India:), but politics is unique thing Bhidranwale expected Pakistan's support in creation of Khalistan:D