This article tries to explain the reasons why Pakistan is today, where it is - in the threshold of uncertainities & turmoil. Whereas India has moved on, and is percieved as a country with a bright future.
Do you agree, if not why not.
Re: Pak & India - why we have developed so differently?.
agree with most of it..hv seen the indifference abt benazir's thingy among quite a few indians.....
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You don’t require the ghost of honourable Muhammad Ali Jinaah to answer this moronically naïve question presented by your respected journalist Vir Sanghvi .
Why let my man bothers when an uneducated and bird-brained Pakistani like me could easily answer it for you Indians…..
First all of all , sooner its better that Indians should get over the fact that Partition was the necessity of that emblematic era . When the very first Indian reverted to Islam … Pakistan was founded that day !
Mr Sanghavi wrote
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I remind you of all this to make two separate points. One: we must not let the largely Delhi- and north Indian-dominated ‘national’ media blind us to the increasing irrelevance of Pakistan as a factor in determining India’s future. Punjabi journos may be fascinated by Pakistan; the rest of us are merely curious
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Please allow me to share my happiness by declaring the fact that we Pakistanis think on same line … A small portion of our crowd , mainly from Urban Punjab and Karachi may share the filmi notion of brothers separated by circumstances with our Indian neighbours. But the rest of us are merely affected or interested…
The pleasure is mutual in this regard …
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History is full of ifs and buts. So who knows how things would have turned out? But just suppose there had been no Partition. Would these same people have lived a very different life? Would they have been part of the Indian success story?
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Yes indeed , history is full of ifs and buts , so who knows if we were given the right share , how things would have turned …. Hyderabad Decan , JonaGhar would be in Pakistan
At the moment , things are really bad in Pakistan , nothing is working out for us but Indian sympathy is still no required…
Till the day a single Pakistani is alive , your dream of ‘ AKHAD BAHRAT ‘ is not going to accomplish ..
And if Mr Vir Sanghvi is among those who are least concerned about Pakistan , he shouldn’t be wasting his time and resources on comparing India Pakistan on one to one basis .
He just did , what an average Indian journalist could do , compare India with Pakistan , make Indians feel greater by tagging them with china and USA as upcoming super power and leave your readers pondering with the old and pointless question ‘just suppose if there had been no Partition’..
Well done mate , Grand job …
Re: Pak & India - why we have developed so differently?.
Utter Nonsensical Article
Here is why India and Pakistan developed differently
1 - All major industrial areas were in India, Pakistan lacked Industries to take it from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and thus our leadership came from the rural elite and thus never implemented land reforms which takes the power away from land lords much like the American South during the pre-civil war days.
2 - Most civil, social and judicial institutions were in India and most of the top echelon were Hindus who left Pakistan during the Partition and thus we had to re-build ours which caused weakness in the constitution and allowing the Army to step in
3 - The most volatile areas of pre-partition India were the border areas with Afghanistan which we got lumped with and became our responsibility which caused massive instability, militancy and the current harbinger of terrorism which is being hosted by these uneducated crazy tribal and their Arab allies.
4 - Pakistan being a small country and thus the plague of corruption effecting both sides but due to India being bigger country, it can absorb corruption without being a mortal wound to it but not Pakistan and thus when Benazir, Nawaz or Musharraf engage in corruption, the effect is much more dire on Pakistan than it is India even though both countries per-capita engage on the same level of corruption
5 - Pakistan lost its leader less than 1 year after its birth, where as India's leader, Nehru stayed on to guide India until the 1960's where as we became a leaderless country at our infancy
Thus there are many factors which explain the divergence of India and Pakistan
Re: Pak & India - why we have developed so differently?.
Totally agree with Mercenery-
the lack of infrastructure as well as well as educated/experienced Muslim really made it difficult for Pakistan to stabilize and move forward for a while...if you don't have the people who know how to run a country/governemnt/education systems etc.....it's very hard to do it smoothly for a while.
If you look at the history of Muslims in India pre-partition it was education that was used to help advance the nationalist cause to create Pakistan....but it was still only a very small precentage of the population that could read, had access to systems and was doing anything outside of farming.
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I always wanted know what would have happened to India if she had to start from scratch like Pakistan? Would there been no military rule, martial law and race politics? Would she be a "democracy" and "secular" like it is today?
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^ True, though I dont believe India is secular in any way, more like Ram Raj.
Re: Pak & India - why we have developed so differently?.
^ True, though I dont believe India is secular in any way, more like Ram Raj.
india is the biggest secular country in the world.
How many country had minority president/prime minister?
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Two things:
India is very diverse with respect to religion, culture and ethnicities, one of the diverse countries in the world. Other major democracy are not.
Secularism means that country has no major religion and her politics is not affected by any majority religion. The best is America, but she is also in conflict with politics and religion.
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The most important factor is Socialism.
Socialism broke the back of the zamindars and gave power to the peasants, working class and middle class. There is still the 30 acre law, which means that no farmer can own more than 30 acres of land. Any extra was given to the poorer peasants.
All the Nawabs and Rajas had their property confiscated.
The power went to the people and these people were dedicated to educating themselves and helping create the economy.
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I know Pakistan ammended the law couple of times to cut the powers of Zamindar. Does anyone know what is the max area a person can own?