Pakistan: Celebrating an Asian giant

[Bangalorean]

I knew this would turn out to be a Paki author, and I was right.

 

[Nicky G]

Both country has been neck to neck in gdp per capita terms. Till 2006 in nominal basis and till 2008 in ppp basis, per capita income of Pakistan was more than India. India has lil advantage in recent years since this war on terror started in Pakistan which had negative impact on investment and economy of Pakistan. Pakistan is not doing bad if we consider what Pakistan inherited in comparison to India at the time of partition and this political instability, wars, conflicts and terrorism issue in there

What's the GDP per capita of Luxembourg compared to that of the US? GDP per capita does not determine the volume of trade, military spending etc., thus for defining the significance of a nations - its insignificant.

Pak 'terror' problem is of their creation, besides not an excuse. Even problems not of a country's creation aren't acceptable as excuse.

Independent Pakistan inherited Indias longest and strategically most problematic borders.The heartland of support for the Muslim League lay in Uttar Pradesh which was not included within Pakistan. At the same time 90% of the subcontinent's industry, and taxable income base remained in India, including the largest cities of Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta.

Stupidity of Pak founders is their concern as is the stupidity of Indian leaders of the time. Again, we have to live with the hand dealt to us.

Countries have inherent advantages and disadvantages. Pak is not unique in any regard.

The economy of Pakistan was chiefly agricultural and controlled by feudal elites. Furthermore, at the division of India, Pakistan won a poor share of the colonial governments financial reserves with 23% of the undivided land mass, it inherited only 17.5% of the former governments financial assets. Once the army had been paid, nothing was left over for the purposes of economic development so you see thats where India had edge over Pakistan and then Pakistan had this political instability, Military rules, religious extremism, terrorism and all this wars and conflicts with India, Afghanistan, bangldesh etc so Pakistan has not done bad if we consider all these factors in past which were hurdle in the way of economic progress

Maybe these rationalizations make you feel better; however, the end result does not change - a country with GDP of Mumbai can hardly be considered a giant, particularly when the discussion is in an Indian forum.

 

[Dreamhunter]

A very funny thread
Pakistan is apart from Afghanistan the most backward and least developed country in South Asia.
It has the lowest literacy rate in South Asia. 2 Indian states have a higher GDP than whole Pakistan.

 

[sorcerer]

Diverse areas of excellence

Ofcourse... infinte number of terrorist organization with different names who do different things..and who specializes in various areas.

Aggressive anti-Taliban push

Push them towards Afghanistan...now the Taliban are blowing things in Afghanistan.

Incentives to abide by the law

China paying Pakis for not blowing things in east Turkestan...