It's clear that you have either not been paying attention, or that your emotions are getting in the way of acknowledging reality.
Or may be the lack of reality and completeness of your text is way below comprhension...
While I agree that all of South Asia is worse off than the rest of the world in social indicators, I do not agree that Pakistan is worse off than India.
UN agrees, HDR agrees, CIA world factbook agrees, World bank agrees.. Pardon me if I take their word over yours..
There is plenty of data I have quoted here on the most basic necessities of food, clothing, shelter and sanitation and overall poverty where Pakistan has had and continues to have an edge over India. It may not last long, but it is certainly true for now.
It's not just the world indices and rankings such as world hunger index, UNICEF sanitation rankings, FAO data, etc that confirms it, Indian officials also concede it as I have shown here in this thread.
You as always have cherry picked and have posted selective data.
The prime example is the article that you started this thread with. You actually picked up lines from the original text that favored Pakistan and left out parts where India was shown better off..
For those who are interested, here is the complete article by the world bank Director
INDIA AND PAKISTAN CONTRASTED
The same way, you have taken individual components of a composite index to prove your case. However almost every single composite Index shows that Paksitan is worse off than India..There is a reason why organizations go for a composite index instead of using a single factor to determine the well being of a nation
In IFPRI's most recent global hunger report, India still ranks at 65, worse than Pakistan at 58, and much worse than China at 5.
A miniscule difference of 3 percentage points..
The same report shows that India has been improving its Global Hunger Index over last 17 years @
1.6% where as Pakistan rate of improvement is
sub 1%.
Also the same index shows that while India has
reduced its undernourished Adult population from 24% to 21%,
Pakistan has actually increased this percentage from 22% to 23% over last 17 years..
In 2008, Indian Planning Commission member Syeda Hameed acknowledged that India is worse than Bangladesh and Pakistan when it comes to nourishment and is showing little improvement.
Speaking at a conference on "Malnutrition an emergency: what it costs the nation", she said even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during interactions with the Planning Commission has described malnourishment as the "blackest mark".
"I should not compare. But countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are better," she said. The conference was organized last year by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Ministry of Development of Northeastern Region.
If you are willing to take the word of an Indian official, I can show you 100 that say the other way round.. Some one's statement does not fill in for factual data..
According to India's Family Health Survey, almost 46 percent of children under the age of three are undernourished - an improvement of just one percent in the last seven years. This is only a shade better than Sub-Saharan Africa where about 35 percent of children are malnourished.
Haq's Musings: Right to Food in India, Pakistan and China
However, the same survey of Global hunger Index shows, that over last 15 years, India has been decreasing this percentage @ over 2% per annum as against Pakistan's performance of 1.5%.
Also the same index shows that while India scores lower in nourishment of children, Pakistan's
under 5 mortality rate is almost
25% higher than that of India..
