Comparing India and Pakistan 2010

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1. Per capita incomes in both nations have more than doubled in the last ten years, in spite of significant increases in population. The most recent and detailed real per capita income data was calculated and reported by Asian Development Bank based on a detailed study of a list of around 800 household and nonhousehold products in 2005 and early 2006 to compare real purchasing power for ADB’s trans-national income comparison program (ICP). The ABD ICP concluded that Pakistan had the highest per capita income at HK$ 13,528 (US $1,745) among the largest nations in South Asia. ADB reported India’s per capita as HK $12,090 (US $1,560). Nominal per capita GDP estimates for Pakistan range from US $1000 to US $1022, while the range for India is from US $ 1017 to US $ 1100. Purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita GDP estimates for Pakistan from various sources range from $2500 to $2644, while the same sources put the range for India’s per capita GDP from $2780 to $2972.

2. The incidence of poverty (defined as $1.25 per day) has also come down in both nations, although the number of poor in South Asia still remains very high. According to the 2009 UN Human and Income Poverty Report, the people living under $1.25 a day in India is 41.6 percent, about twice as much as Pakistan’s 22.6 percent. The most recent estimates by UNDP in Pakistan for 2007-2008 indicate poverty level at 17.2%.
3. Food production has barely kept pace with the rise of population, particularly in Pakistan. There have been higher food prices and shortages of various commodities such as wheat and sugar. There is widespread hunger and malnutrition in all parts of India. India ranks 66th on the 2008 Global Hunger Index of 88 countries while Pakistan is slightly better at 61 and Bangladesh slightly worse at 70. The first India State Hunger Index (Ishi) report in 2008 found that Madhya Pradesh had the most severe level of hunger in India, comparable to Chad and Ethiopia. Four states — Punjab, Kerala, Haryana and Assam — fell in the ’serious’ category. “Affluent” Gujarat, 13th on the Indian list is below Haiti, ranked 69. The authors said India’s poor performance was primarily due to its relatively high levels of child malnutrition and under-nourishment resulting from calorie deficient diets.

4. Though the nutritional status has improved in both nations, there are still very high levels of malnutrition, particularly among children. In spite of the fact that there is about 22% malnutrition in Pakistan and the child malnutrition being much higher at 40% (versus India’s 46%), the average per capita calorie intake of about 2500 calories is within normal range. But the nutritional balance necessary for good health appears to be lacking in Pakistanis’ dietary habits. Senior Indian official Syeda Hameed has acknowledged that Pakistan and Bangladesh have done better than India in meeting the nutritional needs of their populations.

5. India’s economy has grown more rapidly than Pakistan’s in the last ten years. However, both nations have accepted and implemented significant economic reforms that have opened up their economies and brought about rapid growth, more than doubling the size of each economy in the last ten years.
6. The level of urbanization in Pakistan is now the highest in South Asia, and its urban population is likely to equal its rural population by 2030, according to a report titled ‘Life in the City: Pakistan in Focus’, released by the United Nations Population Fund. Pakistan ranks 163 and India at 174 on a list of over 200 countries compiled by Nationmaster. The urban population now contributes about three quarters of Pakistan’s gross domestic product and almost all of the government revenue. The industrial sector contributes over 27% of the GDP, higher than the 19% contributed by agriculture, with services accounting for the rest of the GDP.

7. The increasing urbanization has had the effect of defusing the “population bomb” in Pakistan. With increasing urbanization, Pakistan’s population growth rate has declined from 2.17% in 2000 to 1.9% in 2008. Based on PAI Research Commentary by Karen Hardee and Elizabeth Leahy, the total fertility rate (TFR) in Pakistan is still the highest in South Asia at 4.1 children per woman. Women in urban areas have an average of 3.3 children compared to their rural counterparts, who have an average of 4.5 children. The overall fertility rate has been cut in half from about 8 children per woman in 1960s to about 4 this decade, according to a study published in 2009.

 

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Goldman Sachs report on “BRIC” and “Next 11″ projects that India will be the fourth largest economy in the world by 2025. Goldman also forecasts Pakistan’s rank moving up from the 26th largest now to the 18th largest economy in the world by 2025. If the deteriorating security situation and current economic slump in Pakistan are not contained and managed properly, there is a strong chance that Pakistan would be left significantly behind India at the time of the next update of this comparison in 2020. However, Pakistan is just too big to fail. In spite of all of the serious problems it faces today, I remain optimistic that country will not only survive but thrive in the coming decades. With a fairly large educated urban middle class, vibrant media, active civil society, assertive judiciary, many philanthropic organizations, and a spirit of entrepreneurship, the nation has the necessary ingredients to overcome its current difficulties to build a strong economy with a democratic government accountable to its people.

Here are some more recent comparative indicators:

Poverty:

Population living under $1.25 a day – India: 41.6% Pakistan: 22.6% Source: UNDP

Underweight Children Under Five (in percent) Pakistan 38% India 46% Source: UNICEF

Life expectancy at birth (years), 2007 India: 63.4 Pakistan: 66.2 Source: HDR2009

Education:

Youth (15–24 years) literacy rate, 2000 to 2007, male Pakistan: 80% India 87% Source: UNICEF

Youth (15–24 years) literacy rate, 2000 to 2007, female Pakistan 60% India 77% Source: UNICEF

Economics:

GDP per capita (US$), 2008 Pak:$1000-1022 India $1017-1100

Child Protection:

Child marriage under 15-years ; 1998–2007*, total Pakistan – 32% India – 47% Source: UNICEF

Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births (2007), Value Pakistan – 90 India 72 Source: UNICEF

 

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Poverty:

Population living under $1.25 a day – India: 41.6% Pakistan: 22.6% Source: UNDP

Underweight Children Under Five (in percent) Pakistan 38% India 46% Source: UNICEF

Life expectancy at birth (years), 2007 India: 63.4 Pakistan: 66.2 Source: HDR2009

Education:

Youth (15–24 years) literacy rate, 2000 to 2007, male Pakistan: 80% India 87% Source: UNICEF

Youth (15–24 years) literacy rate, 2000 to 2007, female Pakistan 60% India 77% Source: UNICEF

Economics:

GDP per capita (US$), 2008 Pak:$1000-1022 India $1017-1100

Child Protection:

Child marriage under 15-years ; 1998–2007*, total Pakistan – 32% India – 47% Source: UNICEF

Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births (2007), Value Pakistan – 90 India 72 Source: UNICEF

Now looking at the figures , i think its fairly comparable [if you let alone Population living under $1.25 a day and compensate for the war on terrorism effects].

Conclusion: India is too big to remain poor, Pakistan is too Big to be considered out of the race.

 

[A.R.]

Great Failures of Pakistan in following Fields


Failure of Democracy

The very fact that no elected government in Pakistan has completed its full term in these 60 years proves the gross failure of Democracy as an idea in Pakistan.

The very fact that for over 40 years the country has been under military rule proves the failure of democracy there.

Musharraff imposed emergency in the state a few days back!

Failure of the idea of a state

The first great failure of the idea of the state of Pakistan occurred in 1971. The till then East Pakistan revolted against the very idea of Pakistan and emerged as an independent nation called Bangladesh. This very break up proved that fact that the idea of a Islamic Nation in the form of Pakistan was wrong. Even today more muslims live in India than in Pakistan itself! The partition of India broke the country into two pieces in 1947, the first logical end of this was reached when Pakistan itself got broken into two pieces after that in 1971.

Failure of Science and Technology

Just like any other fundamentalist Islamic state, Pakistan has been a big flop in the field of science and technology. There have been no worth while scientific contributions that have come out of this country in the past 60 years. How can one expect any scientific research from a country where the youth are trained how to tie bombs around themselves and explode! Where the youth are recruited to cause destruction and havoc all over the world, including inside Pakistan!

Its nuclear tests in 1998 were as a response to the Indian tests and not a real test to test its weapons capability. The world scientific community laughed at Pakistan for this immature act.

Its missile tests always take place in response to Indian missile tests. I don’t think this is a scientific process of conducting any tests. The whole world knows that Pakistani missiles are of Chinese and North Korean origin.

Its top scientist, the so called Father of Pakistani nuclear bomb (or the Islamic Bomb as they would prefer to call it), A Q Khan, ran a nuclear black market selling the nuclear technology to other nations and groups. He had stolen blue prints of nuclear centrifuges in Netherlands and even today has a non bailable arrest warrant against him in Netherlands for this crime. Such is the story of its top scientist, who under pressure from Musharraff had to come on the national television and issue a public apology for letting down the nation! Pakistan is a black listed nuclear state in the world today!

Failure of Religion

Religion as an idea has failed in keeping Pakistan together as a nation. The separation of Bangladesh was the first failure.

But a bigger threat lies on Pakistan today, in the form of the possible separation of Baluchistan. The Baluchis are not happy with the state of Pakistan and want a separate nation for Baluchistan.


Similarly there is also a movement going on for an independent Sindhudesh

Some even feel that the division of Pakistan is the only way to root out terrorism.

Success of Religious Extremism

Hasan Askari, former head of the Political Science Department of the Punjab University, Pakistan, says “that Pakistan can no longer be described as a moderate and tolerant society”.

Which is of course true, given the fact that even the orphans of earth quake victims were not spared and were recruited by the terrorist organizations in Pakistan!

The Lal Masjid incident proves this once again. Given the threat from this terrorist state, US has talked of military actions on Pakistan.

There is a resurgent Taliban and AlQaida in Pakistan today, and government is simply not able to control it or perhaps does not want to control it. As many say, he is probably playing hunting with the hounds and running with the hare by being with the US and allies on the war against terrorism on one side, and supporting the same terrorists against India and Afghanistan on the other side!

Even the action at Lal Masjid was taken by Musharraff because of the Chinese pressure as the Chinese nationals were kidnapped by the terrorists.

 

[Hang em High]

Great Failures of Pakistan in following Fields


Failure of Democracy

The very fact that no elected government in Pakistan has completed its full term in these 60 years proves the gross failure of Democracy as an idea in Pakistan.

The very fact that for over 40 years the country has been under military rule proves the failure of democracy there.

Musharraff imposed emergency in the state a few days back!

Failure of the idea of a state

The first great failure of the idea of the state of Pakistan occurred in 1971. The till then East Pakistan revolted against the very idea of Pakistan and emerged as an independent nation called Bangladesh. This very break up proved that fact that the idea of a Islamic Nation in the form of Pakistan was wrong. Even today more muslims live in India than in Pakistan itself! The partition of India broke the country into two pieces in 1947, the first logical end of this was reached when Pakistan itself got broken into two pieces after that in 1971.

Failure of Science and Technology

Just like any other fundamentalist Islamic state, Pakistan has been a big flop in the field of science and technology. There have been no worth while scientific contributions that have come out of this country in the past 60 years. How can one expect any scientific research from a country where the youth are trained how to tie bombs around themselves and explode! Where the youth are recruited to cause destruction and havoc all over the world, including inside Pakistan!

Its nuclear tests in 1998 were as a response to the Indian tests and not a real test to test its weapons capability. The world scientific community laughed at Pakistan for this immature act.

Its missile tests always take place in response to Indian missile tests. I don’t think this is a scientific process of conducting any tests. The whole world knows that Pakistani missiles are of Chinese and North Korean origin.

Its top scientist, the so called Father of Pakistani nuclear bomb (or the Islamic Bomb as they would prefer to call it), A Q Khan, ran a nuclear black market selling the nuclear technology to other nations and groups. He had stolen blue prints of nuclear centrifuges in Netherlands and even today has a non bailable arrest warrant against him in Netherlands for this crime. Such is the story of its top scientist, who under pressure from Musharraff had to come on the national television and issue a public apology for letting down the nation! Pakistan is a black listed nuclear state in the world today!

Failure of Religion

Religion as an idea has failed in keeping Pakistan together as a nation. The separation of Bangladesh was the first failure.

But a bigger threat lies on Pakistan today, in the form of the possible separation of Baluchistan. The Baluchis are not happy with the state of Pakistan and want a separate nation for Baluchistan.


Similarly there is also a movement going on for an independent Sindhudesh

Some even feel that the division of Pakistan is the only way to root out terrorism.

Success of Religious Extremism

Hasan Askari, former head of the Political Science Department of the Punjab University, Pakistan, says “that Pakistan can no longer be described as a moderate and tolerant society”.

Which is of course true, given the fact that even the orphans of earth quake victims were not spared and were recruited by the terrorist organizations in Pakistan!

The Lal Masjid incident proves this once again. Given the threat from this terrorist state, US has talked of military actions on Pakistan.

There is a resurgent Taliban and AlQaida in Pakistan today, and government is simply not able to control it or perhaps does not want to control it. As many say, he is probably playing hunting with the hounds and running with the hare by being with the US and allies on the war against terrorism on one side, and supporting the same terrorists against India and Afghanistan on the other side!

Even the action at Lal Masjid was taken by Musharraff because of the Chinese pressure as the Chinese nationals were kidnapped by the terrorists.

What a bright un-biased, highly intelligent man you are.... go make papa proud
Though blinded, but you patriotism is admirable.

 

[A.R.]

What a bright un-biased, highly intelligent man you are.... go make papa proud
Though blinded, but you patriotism is admirable.

you tell me which thing is wrong written ....PP

 

[karan.1970]

Conclusion: India is too big to remain poor, Pakistan is too Big to be considered out of the race.

No doubt.. Both of us have our problems.. Some important like poverty and some urgent like terrorism.

And that's the problem with these vs. threads.. They dont make too much of a sense but still need to be responded to.. Specially if folks like Haq post dubious/selective sound bytes / figures to prove a point that's worthless to begin with.

 

[RiazHaq]

Selective quoting will only get you so far Riaz.. .. Didnt expect you to quote incomplete articles to leave out the parts criticising Pakistan...Nah.. actually did expect you.. But dude.. Busted.. See my other responses to the partial article you quoted by this gentleman

Do you always quote long articles in their entirety? Or do you select parts that are relevant to the question at hand?

What I quoted from Dalymple was the part relevant to the infrastructure question that was being discussed.

And I also posted the video clip that includes his comments, both positive and critical of Pakistan. Any one who reads his article or watches it carefully can clearly hear and easily conclude that Dalrymple is busting the myth about India as emerging superpower and Pakistan a failed state. In Dalrymple's own words,

"On the ground, of course, the reality is different and first-time visitors to Pakistan are almost always surprised by the country's visible prosperity. There is far less poverty on show in Pakistan than in India, fewer beggars, and much less desperation. In many ways the infrastructure of Pakistan is much more advanced: there are better roads and airports, and more reliable electricity. Middle-class Pakistani houses are often bigger and better appointed than their equivalents in India."

The same is the case with Scrutton's piece and it clearly says, "It (M2) puts paid to what's on offer in Pakistan's traditional foe and emerging economic giant India, where village culture stubbornly refuses to cede to even the most modern motorways, making them battlegrounds of rickshaws, lorries and cows."

Scrutton's piece is deliberately headlined "WITNESS: Failed state? Try Pakistan's M2 motorway" which is clearly designed to demolish Indian inspired myths abut Pakistan.

What it means to me is that India is essentially a rural society where animals roam free on the streets and the highways, and Pakistan is significantly more urbanized and organized than India.

The level of urbanization in Pakistan is now the highest in South Asia, and its urban population is likely to equal its rural population by 2030, according to a report titled ‘Life in the City: Pakistan in Focus’, released by the United Nations Population Fund. Pakistan ranks 163 and India at 174 on a list of over 200 countries compiled by Nationmaster. The urban population now contributes about three quarters of Pakistan's gross domestic product and almost all of the government revenue. The industrial sector contributes over 27% of the GDP, higher than the 19% contributed by agriculture, with services accounting for the rest of the GDP.

Haq's Musings: Urbanization in Pakistan Highest in South Asia

 

[RiazHaq]

Dalrymple is not alone in busting the myths perpetrated by the Indians and the western media about India as a superpower and Pakistan a failed state. I know it from personal experience of my travel to both nations.

Here's Yoginder Sikand 10 June, 2008 Countercurrents.org

"Islamabad is surely the most well-organized,picturesque and endearing city in all of South Asia. Few Indians would, however, know this, or, if they did, would admit it. After all, the Indian media never highlights anything positive about Pakistan, because for it only 'bad' news about the country appears to be considered 'newsworthy'. That realization hit me as a rude shock the moment I stepped out of the plane and entered Islamabad's plush International Airport, easily far more efficient, modern and better maintained than any of its counterparts in India. And right through my week-long stay in the city, I could not help comparing Islamabad favorably with every other South Asian city that I have visited. That week in Islamabad consisted essentially of a long string of pleasant surprises, for I had expected Islamabad to be everything that the Indian media so uncharitably and erroneously depicts Pakistan as. The immigration counter was staffed by a smart young woman, whose endearing cheerfulness was a refreshing contrast to the grave, somber and unwelcoming looks that one is generally met with at immigration counters across the world that make visitors to a new country feel instantly unwelcome."



Here's Bill Sykes BBC News 12 November, 2007

"Suicide bombs, battles in tribal areas, and states of emergency tend to put off casual tourists. But the impression such events convey can often be misleading and unrepresentative of a country as a whole. A few days ago I was sitting in a cafe sipping best Italian espresso and reading a news magazine. The front page was full of furious faces and clenched fists under the headline, The Most Dangerous Nation in the World isn't Iraq, it's Pakistan. The cafe was in a smart bookshop in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. I sighed and turned to the article inside.
It was a revealing analysis of some penetration of a few places in Pakistan by the Taleban and al-Qaeda. I pondered the magnifying-glass effect of dramatic news coverage. The suicide bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto's homecoming parade in Karachi in October, which killed an estimated 140 people, and the assault on a Taleban pocket in the Swat valley, a tourist destination, took place while I was in Pakistan.
But neither event had a noticeable effect on the general sense of security and stability where I was in Islamabad or on the road. The notion that Pakistan is more dangerous than Iraq is absurd."


Haq's Musings: Foreign Visitors to Pakistan Pleasantly Surprised

 

[riju78]

You really have a habbit of selective copy and paste.. Dont you?? So actually left out the starting and ending of this article from Telegraph.. Allow me to do the honors..
The inital part that you left out

Amid all the hoopla surrounding the 60th anniversary of Indian independence, almost nothing has been heard from Pakistan, which turns 60 today. Nothing, that is, if you discount the low rumble of suicide bombings, the noise of automatic weapons storming the Red Mosque and the creak of slowly collapsing dictatorships.
In the world's media, never has the contrast between the two countries appeared so stark: one is widely perceived as the next great superpower; the other written off as a failed state, a world centre of Islamic radicalism, the hiding place of Osama bin Laden and the only US ally that Washington appears ready to bomb.


The Later part that you left out

One is the fundamental flaw in Pakistan's political system. Democracy has never thrived here, at least in part because landowning remains almost the only social base from which politicians can emerge. In general, the educated middle class - which in India seized control in 1947, emasculating the power of its landowners - is in Pakistan still largely excluded from the political process. As a result, in many of the more backward parts of Pakistan the local feudal zamindar can expect his people to vote for his chosen candidate. Such loyalty can be enforced. Many of the biggest zamindars have private prisons and most have private armies.

In such an environment, politicians tend to come to power more through deals done within Pakistan's small elite than through the will of the people. Behind Pakistan's swings between military governments and democracy lies a surprising continuity of interests: to some extent, the industrial, military, landowning and bureaucratic elites are now all related and look after one another. The current rumours of secret negotiations going on between Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto, the exiled former prime minister, are typical of the way that the civil and military elites have shared power with relatively little recourse to the electorate.

The second major problem that the country faces is linked with the absence of real democracy, and that is the many burgeoning jihadi and Islamist groups. For 25 years, the military and Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), have been the paymasters of myriad mujahideen groups. These were intended for selective deployment first in Afghanistan and then Kashmir, where they were intended to fight proxy wars for the army, at low cost and low risk.

Twenty-eight years after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, however, the results have been disastrous, filling the country with thousands of armed but now largely unemployed jihadis, millions of modern weapons, and a proliferation of militant groups.

While the military and intelligence community in Pakistan may have once believed that it could use jihadis for its own ends, the Islamists have followed their own agendas. As the recent upheavals in Islamabad have dramatically shown, they have now brought their struggle on to the streets and into the heart of the country's politics.

The third major issue facing the country is its desperate education crisis. No problem in Pakistan casts such a long shadow over its future as the abject failure of the government to educate more than a fraction of its own people: at the moment, a mere 1.8% of Pakistan's GDP is spent on government schools. The statistics are dire: 15% of these government schools are without a proper building; 52% without a boundary wall; 71% without electricity.

This was graphically confirmed by a survey conducted two years ago by the former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician, Imran Khan, in his own constituency of Mianwali. His research showed that 20% of government schools supposed to be functioning in his constituency did not exist at all, a quarter had no teachers and 70% were closed. No school had more than half of the teachers it was meant to have. Of those that were just about functioning, many had children of all grades crammed into a single room, often sitting on the floor in the absence of desks.

This education gap is the most striking way in which Pakistan is lagging behind India: in India, 65% of the population is literate and the number rises every year: only last year, the Indian education system received a substantial boost of state funds.

But in Pakistan, the literacy figure is under half (it is currently 49%) and falling: instead of investing in education, Musharraf's military government is spending money on a cripplingly expensive fleet of American F-16s for its air force. As a result, out of 162 million Pakistanis, 83 million adults of 15 years and above are illiterate. Among women the problem is worse still: 65% of all female adults are illiterate. As the population rockets, the problem gets worse.

The virtual collapse of government schooling has meant that many of the country's poorest people have no option but to place their children in the madrasa system, where they are guaranteed an ultra-conservative but free education, often subsidised by religious endowments provided by the Wahhabi Saudis.

Altogether there are now an estimated 800,000 to one million students enrolled in Pakistan's madrasas. Though the link between the madrasas and al-Qaida is often exaggerated, it is true that madrasa students have been closely involved in the rise of the Taliban and the growth of sectarian violence; it is also true that the education provided by many madrasas is often wholly inadequate to equip children for modern life in a civil society.

Sixty years after its birth, India faces a number of serious problems - not least the growing gap between rich and poor, the criminalisation of politics, and the flourishing Maoist and Naxalite groups that have recently proliferated in the east of the country. But Pakistan's problems are on a different scale; indeed, the country finds itself at a crossroads. As Jugnu Mohsin, the publisher of the Lahore-based Friday Times, put it recently, "After a period of relative quiet, for the first time in a decade, we are back to the old question: it is not just whether Pakistan, but will Pakistan survive?" On the country's 60th birthday, the answer is by no means clear.

For folks who want to read the full article together , Please find the link below
The 'poor' neighbour | World news | The Guardian

So mr. Haq u admit that u left out the nice part about india because noone post an article in its entire length. Nice! How can u justify all this even after getting busted by karan.

 

[riju78]

i thought u were comparing india and pakistan and now u posted something u posted before. U should realise that ur posts are not like the movie 'avatar' which we find interesting to go through again. I have asked u this before. Y r u not in pakistan???

 

[RiazHaq]

So mr. Haq u admit that u left out the nice part about india because noone post an article in its entire length. Nice! How can u justify all this even after getting busted by karan.

Read my original post in this thread, and the links I provided. You will find that I have given credit to India where it is due...such as education and literacy where India has done a better job than Pakistan.

The problem with you and some other Indians is that you lash out at any one, including your fellow Indians, who find any fault with India. People such a Pankaj Mishra have written about this phenomenon of super sensitivity among many Indians that finds any criticism of India offensive. The denunciation of "Slumdog Millionaire" by many Indians calling it "poverty ****" typifies Indian reaction to any truthful portrayal of India.

Here is a quote from Pankaj Mishra:

In an article I wrote for the New York Times in 2003 I underlined the likely perils if the depressed and alienated minority of Muslims were to abandon their much-tested faith in the Indian political and legal system. Predictably Hindu nationalists, most of them resident in the UK and US, inundated my email inbox, accusing me of showing India in a bad light.

Pankaj Mishra in Pankaj Mishra: Violence runs through this 'stable' India, built on poverty and injustice | World news | The Guardian

On the other hand, anything positive about Pakistan is obscured and attacked on all occasions by the Indian hordes of the net.

As Yoginder Sikand put it in a piece last year:

After all, the Indian media never highlights anything positive about Pakistan, because for it only 'bad' news about the country appears to be considered 'newsworthy'. That realization hit me as a rude shock the moment I stepped out of the plane and entered Islamabad's plush International Airport, easily far more efficient, modern and better maintained than any of its counterparts in India. And right through my week-long stay in the city, I could not help comparing Islamabad favorably with ever.....

Pleasantly Surprised, In Islamabad By Yoginder Sikand

What the Dalrymple article and the video clip I posted does is demolish the myths and propaganda by many hateful Indian against Pakistan, as do the Yoginder Sikand piece and the Alistair Scrutton piece that I have cited.

 

[TheEnrichedOne]

Live in your dreams....The world knows who wins......Who is more developed(Human Development Index) , GDP(PPP) of which country is more,Which country is growing 7% in recession & 9% normal ...etc. etc. etc. etc.

You just had to reply because you are insecure about your country. God forbid somebody might think India is not a world superpower.... lets keep the propaganda going

 

[A.R.]

You just had to reply because you are insecure about your country. God forbid somebody might think India is not a world superpower.... lets keep the propaganda going

nope!! i think it is the duty of every indian that whenever he finds rubbish comments on his country he must make it correct... or at least protest to it....abhiras was just fulfilling his duty
cheers to him..

 

[sirius]

Oh this BS thread has reached 26 pages!! Well done mr haq your mission is successful.
I dont understand that why you create threads on india bashing?? there are other ways to promote your blog..