No they did not, The figures are per UN, their economy is over $17T+ and growing, and their population is 1.4B and stable, you can do the math... I personally know people who visited India and China and have a very very different story to tell. China has indeed built world-class...
Agreed, China has made great progress in 20 odd years but their biggest achievement is reducing poverty. 800M out of poverty in 20+ years is nothing short of a miracle.
When I was in the UK the South Asians never fought against each other because there was a common enemy the National Front / Skin Heads. But Pakistanis were a lot more vocal and would take a stand against the skinheads that's why they called them Pakis.
Prophet's last sermon.
"All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a White has no superiority over a Black nor a Black has any superiority over a White except by piety and good action."
They may have nukes you never know, west reports are based on circumstantial evidence... No one knows the inside workings of Eyran, India, Pak, NoKo but only estimates.
Agreed about Pakistan, we simply do not have the industrial base, Infra and the resources to develop such toys. Developing Infra. and R&D takes $Ts. No poor country can achieve that until poverty is considerably reduced, Literacy rate is much higher (case in point China)
What Indians are jumping up and down is nothing out of the ordinary, There is nothing to brag about a moon shot with begged/borrowed/stolen technology, these days everything is available off the shelf and everything has a price. Even NoKo managed to launch a nuclear sub and ICBMs from...