Why is Pakistan, the land of the plentiful, lagging behind India?

Why is Pakistan, the land of the plentiful, lagging behind India?

It has been over 64 years since the subcontinent has been divided into the separate nations the world knows as Pakistan and India. In those 64 years, both countries have taken very different roads to be in the position, or rather the state, they are in today.

One cannot meet the daily needs of its people, while the other is touted to become one of the world’s strongest economies in the not too distant future. No prizes for guessing which is which.

Pakistan has a President in the shape of Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, who apart from his own party, has very little support from the people and is regularly referred to as a crook, among other things.

That may explain why the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority was planning to ban the 1500-word list of abusive, offensive and derogatory, seeing how many of them may have been aimed at the big man, but that is a topic for another day.

Even then, one cannot hold one man or a leader responsible for 64 years of the same thing, despite the fact that corruption now has an official face. India is way up there when it comes to having the most corrupt governments in the world, yet it is heading
in a completely different direction.

Of the top companies in the world a fair number of them currently have Indians as their CEOs, while one would struggle to find one of their own among the list. The world has taken to India more than it has to Pakistan.

One could argue that Pakistan is populated by a large number of Muslims and the world is anti-Muslim at the moment. That argument is flawed because there are more Muslims in India than there are in Pakistan, so that pretty much proves that religious belief
plays very little part in the debate.

Read on in the next part of the article…

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Posted by Musa Afridi on Dec 13 2011. Filed under Opinion, Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry