It would have been a communal sh!thole with followers of two religions at each other's throats.
Moreover, it will top the list of failed state with immense levels of poverty with politicians
involving in religious vote bank politics. IMO partition was the best thing that happened
to this...
The article says total muslim population in May 2012 is 2.6% i.e ~3 million
Number of Muslims in the U.S. doubles since 9/11* - NY Daily News
Same figure comes from the wiki link.
Islam by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here is an article doing some analysis from a Bharati source. Not sure how credible it is but senior members
can pitch in their views on it.
Iran pipeline will be Pakistan's Enron by Swaminomics : SA Aiyar's blog-The Times Of India
The dam needs about $12 billion (probably more than our current forex reserves) as I have read somewhere. That is a huge arse amount. We can either ask China and America to fund it, but I am not sure how willing they would be. One can try to widen
the tax net to generate funds but that is a very...
See, both countries try to create trouble for each other in a diplomatic manner wherever possible. India is just returning the favor. Yes, I fully agree that economic development is the only way to control extremism.
The Kasmir UN resolution, has some preconditions which you probably know...
You probably did not read my post properly. The loan from ADB or WB requires ijazat from India,not the
building of dam. If we have money in our pocket, we can start building it right now.:pakistan:
Kashmir is pretty much a lost cause. Only solution is make LoC IB, unless otherwise we can hold
a gun to our head and force the UN+US to conduct a plebiscite(seems far fetched)
Kashmir could have been independent or could have become part of Pakistan
if it was not our foolishness of starting a skirmish. Even now if we remove our forces Kashmir
we will have a strong case for a UN sponsored plebiscite.
Since we cannot fund the dam from our pocket, we are looking for a ADB or WB loan, which would require an Indian NOC for building it in a disputed territory.
These invasions left a scar on the subcontinental civilization, by dividing same people into two groups on the basis
of religion. This is what is going to trouble it for the coming generations.
Muslims are very low in number so they cannot really ask for sharia law. Moreover, US is really strict when
it comes to surveillance and counter measures. Again, their country their laws.