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It just needs one region or state to breakaway and the whole country will fall apart.

Not this again. It's been discussed to death in the other thread.

This is not good news. I fear once they become all powerful they will start gobbling up countries near them.

Can a city truly become a great one without the gleaming skyscrapers that adorn it?

Most Bengali Brahmins are historically from East Bengal.

The good thing about Pakistani cities is that they have nice wide roads with lots of greenery, particularly Islamabad, but they don't seem very developed. There's scarcity of skyscrapers, lack of modern office buildings, undeveloped city centres. All in all, most city hubs look rather dilapidated.

That's the conflict.

I am definitely not one. But I must say I am one of those who is conflicted. One the one hand I want Bangladesh to be a better Muslim society (as many of us are not good Muslims at all) but on the other, I feel any country that is strictly religious tends to be backward e.g. Afghanistan, where...

Actually, now that I think about it, I don't t think Pakistanis and Sikhs look different as a whole.

We Bangladeshis accept we are Hindu converts and any foreign admixture is blended in. No Bangladeshi claims they are Afghan, Iranian or Arab. I've never heard any Bangladeshi say it, until I came here that is. But then, I find there are are hardline Muslims lurking around this place, so it's not...

It's very noticeable to me Pakistanis and Indian Punjabis do look somewhat different. I have been to places like Southall where there are a lot of Sikhs. Indian punjabis look more Indic than their Pakistani Punjabi counterpart on average. There are some Pakistanis who still look very Indic but...

Pakistan is a different matter. A ton of Pakistanis show visible West Asian admixture, to the point I would say Pakistani Punjabis and Indian Punjabis are not genetically the same ethnicity anymore, though quite a lot of similarities do still remain.

He is saying there are Bengali Buddhists on the mainland as well, not just the ones in found in the hills.

Bangladeshis weren't Buddhists, they were Hindus, and there is nothing wrong with it. As a Muslim it makes no difference whether we were Hindu or Buddhist, what matters is that we're now Muslim.

Both these women look regular Bangladeshi to me. They pass within the wide phenotypical range of Bangladesh. They are just lighter skinned, and better looking I suppose than average. I don't think either look West Asian but show signs of admixture. I don't think they will be taken for an Afghan...

What was that for?

I saw some Bangladeshi Buddhists in Chittagong supporting Sri Lanka (probably because Sri Lanka are a Budhist nation). They were in their Buddhist attire and looked Chinese. So there are some Buddhists there. Lot of the Buddhists in Bangladesh would probably have Indic admixture, just like most...

Well, a lot of a Bangladeshis and West Bengalis do overlap but I also think there are some Bangladeshis that won't fit very well in WB, and vice versa. Whether you like it or not, the Muslim settlers in the Subcontinent would have had to marry local women and thereby injecting some West Asian...

They may look like your average Bangladeshi, but various races, including West Asian Muslims, have contributed to the gene pool.

Pakistan has two big factors in their favour - 1) a long head start as a nation; 2) much bigger land, blessed with a lot of natural resources However, as Japan and Singapore have shown, you don't necessarily have to big in size and blessed with oil and gas reserves, to be become among the great...