Comments on: At the crossroads of tragic possibilities

By: sam_a

sam_a — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:54:08 +0000

can decency and patriotism not be the binding force? what of the religious minorities, if you focus on religion?

By: peddarowdy

peddarowdy — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:36:20 +0000

Pakistan did indeed grow economically faster than India, but things changed after 1991 when India adopted a economic liberalisation.

The difference between India and Pakistan is while poverty in India is on the decrease, its on the rise in Pakistan. I can’t paste links, for the comments will not get published, but you are free to Google.

UN MDG report says India will halve its poverty from a high of 51% in 1991 to 22% by 2015. It says the opposite with Pakistan.

World Bank website data says India’s poverty in 2010 was 29%. In 2006 it was 33%. You see the trend, don’t you. Pakistan’s last available data is from mid 2000s. Recent estimates show the poverty level has climbed to 43%, as per Asian Development Bank analysis.

By: Rao

Rao — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:56:39 +0000

Haven’t heard of Unity in Diversity…..

By: Mohamed Ayub

Mohamed Ayub — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:09:48 +0000

India has progressed so well! you must be day dreaming! learning by rote you have just produced copycats. Go and do a proper research. Human Development Index by UN puts India and Pakistan at the same level, few notches of difference shall be completely ingored. Indians please dont live in illusion.thats even more tragic. problems with Pakistan started by unscrupulous elements of Cold War and it will take time to settle down. Dont worry Pakistan will remain ever to vie with India at every level .

By: sam

sam — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:08:28 +0000

EXCELLENT SIR

By: Ankahi Baatein

Ankahi Baatein — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:44:38 +0000

A very formidable summary of Pakistan’s history specially about the breakup of it’s East Wing! A great mistake (or should I say crime) was made by not allowing the majority Bengalis to form a government at the centre! But we are a nation who does not want to learn from its mistakes! Will history repeat itself? This is the troubling question today!

By: Pramod

Pramod — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:10:51 +0000

Very Well Said Mr Baig. Muslims should open up their mind about religion and should not trust anything and everything said on name of Islam.Situation has come from a point when fatwa against Taslima Nasreen was issued for writing a book about (or against can not say did not read the book) to dragging a mentally unstable person from police station and burnt him alive.
Such behavior of Muslims is the only reason for what ever bad name Islam has got today.

By: Bilal

Bilal — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:28:48 +0000

If religion cannot be binding force, then there is no other glue which could stick you and you are found to fall apart which you are witnessing in 2013.
Bilal
UK

By: Ali Baloch

Ali Baloch — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:26:07 +0000

i guess the article fell on deaf ears.

By: peddarowdy

peddarowdy — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:11:42 +0000

Even at the time of Partition Muslims had no reason to be not educated. They ruled for 800 years a large part of India.

Even today that mindset persists and of the many Muslims I know in India, education is still not the high priority for them. They start dreaming of Dubai, Saudi and stuff ever since their teens.. They instil this same with their children. Children they have lots! No family planning, Islam forbids it, they say.

There is a fight among Hindus as to which community gets better educational sops. No wonder India is progressing so well. Muslims are missing the train, quite literally.