you really need to stop poking your nose between our discussion
Excuse me. Are you both having a
private chat in your bedroom all hugged up and cuddly that I have rudely intruded?
I thought this was a
public forum and whole point of these type of boards is people get to express their thoughts.
My opinion is expression of just myself. What is yours? Expression of 10, 100, 1,000 or 1,000,000 people? Does ot carry some
official sanction? Or is it just like mine - a observation of lay person?
Pakistani middle and upper class has better standard of living than average Romania
That is the most ridicalous comparison I have come across in a long while. Ever heard of
cherry picking? Well you just did that. Did you know the elite of Chad or Niger are better off than the average Pakistan? That is not saying much.
A measure of a country is how it provides for it's bottom 25%. The schooling, health, social provision, justice and housing. Simple things like are there pavements for the poor to walk in some poor area? Is there public sanitation, water, health provision in the poor areas? That's what separates the chaff from the wheat.
I know Pakistan is far better than what most people in the West think. I know it is far better than India despite that country having a better reputation abroad but let's not get nationalism cloud our thinking and start running ahead. All you do is lose your credibility.
Many of the migrants to the West are Pakistani and this is used by many to argue that Pakistan is desperately poor compared to say India as the latter has less migrants. I always say that migrants often tend to come from the not so poor backgrounds because the costs requited to migrate are beyond the very poor. The poor in India are so starved that they don't have even the wherewithall to consider moving across country let alone across continents. Furthermore India is on the easern flank of Pakistan with the border acting as a hindrance to Europe.