Pakistan misery soaring population of Pakistan is crisis or Blessing?

[Developereo]

I am sorry but I cannot agree with you here. Even the Indians dont have any worthwhile image in west

Perhaps I didn't explain myself properly. I have seen the particular comparison you posted; it has been making the rounds on the internet. My point was that that particular comparison is part of the ongoing anti-Muslim media campaign.

Why do I say that?

Because nobody circulates similar comparisons of Hindu/Buddhist/Black/Hispanic/Asian v/s Jewish accomplishments. Those comparisons would showcase a similar disparity, but they do not circulate in the media because such comparisons would be deemed racist and politically incorrect. And, as you noted, the comparison is invalid anyway because of vastly different economic and political stability conditions.

This is not to deny the faults within the Muslim world; we have plenty and some have been discussed in this thread:
http://www.defence.pk/forums/curren...s/6617-why-does-muslim-world-lag-science.html

In fact if the present of the society is geared towards allowing the natural maturation of its constituents then there should be no reason except perhaps luck for excellance to not come up.

I agree. The most you can expect from a society or a country is to provide the right environment for talent to flourish. To that extent, in terms of rags to riches, I can't think of any country in the world that can match Germany and Japan. These countries were utterly devastated by war, yet climbed to the top in a matter of decades.

Germany, around 1890, had the most advanced physics research institute in the world, the largest steel production in continental Europe, and produced more electricity than Britain, France and Italy combined. And all this within 20 years of its birth as a nation in 1871.

 

[usman_1112]

Wages have been held down by large supplies of surplus labor, a result of galloping population growth. Since 1947, India's population has almost tripled, leaving it the world's second-most-populous country with 1.2 billion people. The population of Pakistan — which in 1947 was West Pakistan, the less-populous half of a split country — has quadrupled in a half-century to 188 million, putting today's Pakistan variously between seventh on world rankings.

Pakistan's population growth rate, more than 3 percent a year, is among the world's highest. India, one of the first developing countries to adopt a family planning program, has brought its annual growth down slightly to 2 percent.

Longer life spans have contributed to the population problem in both countries. The life expectancy of Indians, for instance, has risen from 32 years in 1947 to 62 now.
Benazir Bhutto waged her first political campaign in 1988, she urged families to have two children, a voluntary limit her government later promoted with the slogan "Two Children, Happy Family." But by the time Bhutto returned to office in 1993, she had delivered her third child. Her second government dropped the two-child campaign ,just see the contradiction of politican who hammpred the efforts to control the population in pakistan.just see to whom we blame?
just see the PM of pakistan syed shaib has a long list of children?

 

[usman_1112]

With West and East Pakistan separated by more than 1,000 miles of Indian territory and with the major portion of the wealth and resources of the British heritage passing to India, Pakistan's survival seemed to hang in the balance. Of all the well-organized provinces of British India, only the comparatively backward areas of Sindh, Balochistan, and the North-West Frontier came to Pakistan intact. The Punjab and Bengal were divided, and Kashmir became disputed territory. Economically, the situation seemed almost hopeless; the new frontier cut off Pakistani raw materials from the Indian factories, disrupting industry, commerce, and agriculture
At the time of independence, Pakistan got a bare share of combined Indian armed forces and finances. After the partition, India developed close relationship with the Soviet Union while Pakistan joined the United States’ sponsored defense treaty “South-East Asia Treaty Organization” in 1954 and “Central Treaty Organization” in 1955.
Pakistan practically had no defence industry at the time of independence and everything had to be started from scratch. But, the will and hardwork put in by our engineers and scientists took Pakistan to respectable pinnacle,”
Three vast compounds were built (Heavy Industries Taxila), one at Wah (Pakistan Ordnance Factories) for producing armaments and ammunition, mainly for the army and a third one at Kamra (Pakistan Aeronautical Complex), to overhaul and maintain and even manufacture military aircraft and aeronautical equipment such as radars.

Heavy Mechanical Complex Taxila set up with the collaboration of China is not only modernizing the existing equipments but also manufacturing modern and efficient Al-Khalid and Al-Zarar Tanks. To strengthen Amour Division, 320 T 80-UD tanks were also bought from Ukraine.

Today, Pakistan is able to manufacture state-of-the-art fighter-jet JF-17 (Thunder), Naval Dockyard in Karachi repairs and maintains navy ships and locally manufactured Agosta 90-B submarine is another feather in the cap. Its missile technology was much better than the adversary as it used solid fuel.

The country has the capability of manufacturing and maintaining small and medium ships while it has recently been assigned task to manufacture combat platform like F-22P (Frigate).

to independence in 1947, India had all industries. This was directly related to British colonial policy. They preferred to use their colonies as a source of raw materials and a market for their own industrial goods. As a result, only 2% of Indians were engaged in industry in 1947. The majority of those were textiles and food processing ,defense.

A large portion of India's industrial ability is concentrated in the cities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. Calcutta, , processes mainly jute. Bombay is approximately the same size but located on the western coast. In Bombay, the major industry is food processing. Madras produces textiles. Most of the industry is still concerned with processing agricultural goods. However, some chemical and light engineering industry has started in Ahmadabad and the area around Madras.The British colonial government left India with another important resource - a well developed rail system. There are some problems with differences of rail gauge but most of the nation is connected to the railway in one way or another.