@SE and TGK
India may have been ahead of us from partition, but Pakistan's socioeconomic indicators were much better than all of the other South Asian countries up until the late 1980's. India had massive problems with its population, its immensely diverse demographic that it just couldn't handle itself. In 1991, when Manmohan Singh became finance minister, India's economy was shuttered off from the rest of the world and on the verge of collapse. But they finally realized that economic and social liberalization is the only way that India would move forward.
And after 20 years, India has outperformed every other South Asian nation. Pakhtoon Rules mentioned that there is a lot of poverty there, more than Pakistan etc. But I'm not saying that India has transformed into a first world country overnight already. But they are working on it. You're comparing an elephant with an ant. We think WE have problem with our paltry 170 million population and four provinces, think about India with their 1.2 billion people and their 28 states and 7 union territories YET they have managed to take everyone together and make the slow journey to progress.
In fact just today an MDG report came out that said that both India and China have made significant improvements in reducing poverty in their respective countries. In 1990 51% of the population was living below poverty whereas by 2015, only 22% of the population is predicted to be living below the poverty line. Unlike our leaders, India didn't claim to halve the poverty rate in the span of one government. Instead they took their time, and 25 years later they see real, stable improvements.
Another thing that I believe is essential to any nation's success is the education of its population. Pakistan has a literacy rate of 46%. Now I know there are several different definitions of literacy, but using the same one for India, its figures stand at 74% as of 2011. They have worked so hard to bring that figure up and it will no doubt pay them dividends in the future as their work force becomes more intelligent and productive.
As their economy grows and their public finance increase, they will surely put more money for public health care and social services, making things better for the common man.
And I forgot to finish a point I made earlier - Pakistan had the best life expectancy, literacy rate, GDP per capita and infant mortality rates in all of South Asia in the 70s and 80s. Today, even Bangladesh is ahead of us.
You guy please know one thing, I love Pakistan. I really do and I am not an American bootlicker like come people call me here - that's a big insult tbh. But I have my views about how we should approach the Pakistan problem and that approach is completely devoid of "patriotic sensationalism" and over hyped emotions. Stop thinking that the world is attacking you. They only do it because you let them. For God's sake even Iran, supposedly the biggest threat to the Western world lives in relative peace in security in its market places and its schools from dawn till dusk. We on the other hand let others come in and pillage us.
Like TGK said, our leaders are a reflection of us. We as a people need to change and stop being irrational and be intelligent in uplifting this country.
Thank you for the historical fact, i was indeed unaware of the number of people who attended the conference at Allahabad.
'with arabic writings'
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