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Eventually they devolve into one. Witness the Wahabis.

I am in favor of giving citizenship to Afghan refugees based on some criteria such as established ties and productive employment. There is no point in uprooting established people. Many of them probably have children who are Pakistani nationals and to try to evict parents would mean the children...

Having read the books myself, I didn't find anything controversial other than what other Pakistani posters have talked about. Sethi is right on some points such as the history being taught in a selective manner. However, I didn't see anywhere being mentioned that Pakistan existed from Bin Qasim...

Well that's basically the idea, but non-muslim nations should be able to join as well that are geographically in the neighborhood, as just religion specific is not going to work. Organizations that are formed on negative mentality and defensiveness will fail. The idea is therefore secular in...

Where is the defensiveness in my post? I am saying India has a large population. Even Turkey, Iran and Pakistan and Central Asian states combined population doesn't come any closer to Indias'. Any large state entering the alliance has potential to disrupt it and make it non functional as has...

A lot of Indians get defensive whenever some kind of alliance between Muslim countries is considered. I don't know what is this insecurity for? India is a large country and would no doubt hold a large sway in world affairs in the future. But do we want yet another global bully who will be able...

I wonder how accurate is the SBP's statistical methodology. Normally, there are too many extrapolations used to arrive at the figures. Historical trends are used where current data is not available. This means for eg if yearly growth is known for the year 1998, then they use the same growth for...

This is getting off-topic but I'd like to have one say. For every one exception I can bring you 100 cases where large families turned out bad overall. I have seen people in Pakistan with large numbers of kids having great difficulty in providing a good life for their children. Forget about...

The tapes have not been authenticated so there is no evidence its OBL speaking. Have there been any video releases where the face can be clearly seen? Somebody wants to make use of OBL boogeyman to create a scare and make people fall in line.

Agreed that the situation is tricky for US. One way or other US turns out in a bad light. But fact of the matter is Pakistani people won't see any benefit if US ends up supporting any of the politicians, most of whom are corrupt. My suggestion is to use the route that China has taken - build...

I didn't realize that's its only under consideration. Anyway, hope you guys see the light. Free markets and globalization is the best path to future prosperity. Sure, you can try protectionist policies but in the end they always backfire.

You are overestimating your leverage here. There are many billions of dollars worth of projects in many parts of the world with less competition than in Indian market. These affected firms may simply choose to do business there. Also, many Chinese firms are state owned so to them its not merely...

Restricting free trade will only hurt India. Now that there is one less competitor for the projects so inefficiency will increase and corruption will arise. Remember the amount of corruption done in CWG. Indian firms are going to charge the GOI an arm and a leg in the future seeing no...

"...." is considered a slur in Britain. Not over here in Canada though since I and my friends use it sometimes within ourselves. It depends on the context in which its used so I don't mind it if its not said in an offensive way.

We need to build several large dams, not just KBD. The region is going to experience severe climate volatility, with years alternating between drought and flood. Time is running out! We need to take action immediately. Mushy was right that he got other dams project started leaving KBD to...

PPP, MQM and ANP all have their gangs. Lyari is a PPP stronghold. When BB was killed in 2008, this area saw a lot gun firing and violence. I was returning home and had to take an alternate route because tires were burning with incidents of ariel firing. Sohrab Goth is another infamous area...

Yes they do. But those surviving longer are in the 65+ age bracket. Improved healthcare, prolonged peace time, better food and income security have increased the life expectancy of males. Now there won't be many willing to marry a 65+ year old granny :rolleyes: The *** ratio in the marriageable...

Saudi theocrats have the agenda to promote the Wahabi/Salafi school of thought. Everything else - feeding the poor, funding for science, establishing a model society - is subservient to this cause. Not only Norway but also Pakistan should be careful how this sort of funding is used. Its likely...

By design, at birth there are more males born than females. There is advantage in it because only until recently more men tended to die at a younger age then women, reversing the ratio. Now a days because of better health care and peace, men's life span has started approaching that of women...

Which is the point exactly. People are different, so giving freedom of choice is better. If some man doesn't desire more than one woman so be it, but let it not be imposed on other men. Besides there can never be any large scale polygamy as the number of unmarried men would increase which...