Which country in South Asia will be first to become developed?

[Mage]

I belive economic stability is more important than the wars .
Trade with india can touch billion of dollars if we open trade with it. Our difference in GDP growth isn't that big , we only need right policies to take it up than India . Hate with each other has served no benefit. I believe more than Pakistan , indians need to work on their mentality as hate and ignorance is more rampant there , a third world poverty filled country with a stubbornness with Pakistan . I can only see them boasting but no work.. ..

what is india anyway ? And pakistan ?

Anyways, it's next to impossible to have such relations as I can conclude from the comments here .

Your politicians need hostility with India to get votes. Your army needs an Indian threat existing to have more money spent on them and to have influence over things. Same goes for India.

For Pakistan to develop quickly, the focus has to be inside. Not on India, not on Kashmir. Instead of lusting over Kashmir, you need to lust over making your own regions better. Instead of lusting over weapons you need to be lusting over good educational institutions.

 

[AndrewJin]

Can I vote for SP2012? It has been achieved a couple of years ago.

 

[El Sidd]

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[illusion8]

Can I vote for SP2012? It has been achieved a couple of years ago.

Are chinese allowed to vote?

Master Emperor Xi disapproves voting.


As for the OP:

Bangladesh is the safest bet, but they will need a country like china to take them forward by giving them industry.

 

[Chhatrapati]

You gotta reread your comment.

We “all” need to. If neighboring is not being done peacefully then you DO HAVE to and NEED to secure yourself with guns & weapons. We are talking about countries here, remember that.
Also, keep in mind we are only fighting with the enemies of the soil. We are not even sponsoring terrorism to neighbor countries.

If your claims were black and white. Just recently, Mushi detailed his love for LeT and how he endorsed them in attacking India.
Oh I get it, your freedom fighters are our terrorist.

With the continued hostility, our region will not develop, be it CPEC or bullet trains. The gains will be nullified by military on either side.

 

[El Sidd]

If your claims were black and white. Just recently, Mushi detailed his love for LeT and how he endorsed them in attacking India.
Oh I get it, your freedom fighters are our terrorist.

With the continued hostility, our region will not develop, be it CPEC or bullet trains. The gains will be nullified by military on either side.

Leave Kashmir

 

[Chhatrapati]

Leave Kashmir

Not gonna happen.

 

[El Sidd]

Not gonna happen.

you will be commenting here when it happens along the lines

'oh its good now India can develop and Kashmiris were always not very Indian'

you are a typical status quo loving Indian....

no harm in that

 

[The BrOkEn HeArT]

I think you must include Sri Lanka and Nepal too.
I believe in Sri Lanka.

After Sri Lanka , it might be Nepal and Bangladesh. India will take more 30 years or more to be developed.

You should not even include Pakistan in this list. Pakistan is not still stable to complete economically with any country.

 

[Chhatrapati]

you will be commenting here when it happens along the lines

'oh its good now India can develop and Kashmiris were always not very Indian'

you are a typical status quo loving Indian....

no harm in that

Status quo will not be altered. Better if we make LAC the border.

We are past the scenario where we start a war and winner gets the land.

Also, it's not about people of Kashmir anymore. It's water, and whoever controls it has more leverage.

 

[El Sidd]

Status quo will not be altered. Better if we make LAC the border.

We are past the scenario where we start a war and winner gets the land.

Also, it's not about people of Kashmir anymore. It's water, and whoever controls it has more leverage.

Status quo has never changed in India buddy stop serenading oppression of occupied forces

 

[Species]

If "Indian occupied contries" were to become independent countries, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Telengana and Kerala would become developed nation in a decade after independence.

^Pretty much this.

India can never be a developed country as a union because there will always be some peripheral states who will keep lagging behind others, leading to massive inequality that India is known for. The central government of India will keep halting development and cooperation with neighboring countries for some states under the pretext of national security.

A good example would be the Northeast. The Northeastern states could have become a major hub in Asia by allowing cooperation with China and Bangladesh and that would have made it one of the most prosperous regions in Asia. The BCIM corridor could be a major step in this regard. But the Indian government has barred every possibility to implement this corridor, effectively denying the Northeast people their right to development.

Another issue is the false idea of national interest in the artificial state. Take the Kashmir conflict as an example. How many states or rather how many people in India are actually connected with the Kashmir crisis, whether directly or indirectly? At least the South Indian and East Indian states have nothing to do with it. However, India is pumping billions of dollars every year to combat the Kashmir conflict and the eventual hostility with Pakistan that 80% Indians have nothing to do with. And these billions of dollars are coming from the hard-earned money of the common people.

As such, I think Bangladesh is the most probable among the three to be the first to become developed. Our greatest strength is, as stated in the OP, our homogeneity.

The next would be Pakistan, provided it doesn't involve itself much into the geopolitical conflicts in the region.

Some major stats:

Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (% of population)
Bangladesh - 18.5% (2010)
Pakistan - 8.3% (2010)
India - 21.5% (2011)

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)
Bangladesh - 72 years (2015)
Pakistan - 66 years (2015)
India - 68 years (2015)

 

[Indus Pakistan]

I do not necessarily think that the military rivalry between India/Pak or the closed border is reason to hold both countries back economically. The Korean peninsula has a divide running along it with huge armies stand eye to eye. The military expenditure is in excess of South Asia when you take the populations into account. North Korea is a country with population about the same as Delhi or Karachi urban area - 25 million. Yet it supports one of the largest armies on earth with air, sea and rocket forces that face off USA.

Note they have 76 submarines, nearly 5000 tanks and nearly million men in active force. That is huge. On top of this they have one of the largest artillery/rocket forces i the world. As if this is not enough they have nuclear ambitions. South Korea, Japan and USA face it off daily yet North Korea still acts arrogantly as we saw with missile launches over the last month. The North Korean military is sufficient deterance that US will not invade this country despite decades of talk. All this from a country bigger than Lahore city.


Some estimates put 25% of the North Korean economy being invested toward defence. Pakistan does not even reach 5%. So with all this going on what does North Korea look like? The people must be living in slums, wearing rags or half naked, starving on the streets, pooping and washing on the roads right?

Loadshedding again?

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/4/28/15460320/north-korea-capital-city-pyongyang-rare-video

Only one tiny problem. Every 2 minutes a North Korean dies of starvation *sarcasm*.

 

[django]

I know about its history . But I believe in upgrading it's future . Move ahead!
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of past .

Look at us , how we're wasting ourselves in enmity with each other , how much money is spent in millitary , nuclear that could be proven as a good use to the economic stability , how our minds are indulged in hate with each other ... . If only we used these energies in betterment of our country , situation would've been different .
I removed hate from my heart against india , your turn too .

I totally concur with @Moonlight on this issue, it is in India's strategic interests to break us up and dominate the newly formed smaller states (heaven forbid), it is in our strategic interests to have inhibited access to Indus river hence Kashmir, the results are we can never be natural allies but vary competitors.Kudos

 

[Indus Pakistan]

I totally concur with @Moonlight on this issue, it is in India's strategic interests to break us up and dominate the newly formed smaller states (heaven forbid), it is in our strategic interests to have inhibited access to Indus river hence Kashmir, the results are we can never be natural allies but vary competitors.Kudos

Rivalry can be a good thing. Europe in the period of industrilization saw intense competition between Britain, France, Germany etc including even wars but that only helped them to push up even more and look where they reached in their competition.