This article only proves that it is elite or non-elite, educated or uneducated, people mindset in Pakistan is the same - Islamic & fundamentalist. People in Pakistan feel sorry for Palestine without feeling sorry for themselves ( moreover who knows that ). Palestines aren't sorry for themselves either and they are no peace seekers, the world knows about it now. What motives Siddiqa has in quoting Palestine. Pakistan has become a rogue state in the 60 yrs of freedom and every Pakistani should be sorry about it. You have also failed to achieve a true democracy. People involved with terrorists are head of the state. People selling nuclear technology unwarranted is also a classic example of what can happen in Pakistan. News about Taliban, al-Qaeda active in Pakistan is no wonder a local and goverment support. What is in order in Pakistan, can Ms.Siddiqa explain. Its a subject to discover. Its time people should start looking at Pakistan in strictest terms and no problems if they are not treated at International airports.
RE:You are all the same..
by hemant atul parulekar on Mar 28, 2007 12:42 PM Permalink
Ms.Siddiqa repreents the paki elite who are least aware of what pak is and where the pak ecomomy is heading towards. She seems to be unaware of the fact that her country's economy is more fragile than a 100 watt bajaj bulb ;-). That she is trying to compare pak with India itself speaks volumes of her ignorance and it surprises me as to how could rediff interview such a person with such shallow knowledge. Rediff to is going to dogs. Rediff fools stop publishing misinformative articles and interviews related to pak. The entire world knows that pak is directly responsible for all the terrorist activities happening across the globe. The world also knows and acknowledges India's prowess in the field of science and technology. So if Ms. Sidddiqa is trying to compaare pak with India then only GOD CAN NOW HELP THIS IGNORANT WOMAN....JAI HIND
[QUOTE] It is struggling to become a regional power and a global player. However, what India needs to realise is that it has to have a more proactive policy of taking its smaller neighbours along otherwise it will always remained tied down. India is not a benign larger neighbour. In some respects it is an authoritarian hegemony. It's very inward looking when it comes to its external policies. And, some of that needs to be re-looked.
India is acquiring aggressive confidence along with economic growth but when that comes to the Indian establishment it translates in the ability that overrides anything that smaller neighbours do. [/QUOTE] What does she mean by proactive, should we drag these lazy country along. We worked hard to reach where we are right now. When we were building Institutions like IIT and IIM's these lazy guys were communalizing there education. it seems the author did not hear the story of grasshopper and the ant
RE:why should we drag the lazy nation along
by hemant atul parulekar on Mar 28, 2007 12:50 PM Permalink
Ms.Siddiqa, please go thro the following and then dream of comparing you impoverished, starving and rogue nation with cultured, peace loving and prospering INDIA.
India ---> IITs, IIMs teaching technology and business. Pak---> Communal madarsas teaching hatred
India ---> SEZs, IT parks, Heavy industries Pak---> Terrorist training camps
India ---> Ascending the development ladder Pak ---> Descending...oops sorry Nose diving down the development ladder.
India ---> Peace, prosperity, Democracy Pak ---> Violence, Poverty, Oppressive Autocracy.
With due respect to the scholalrly gauge of the interviewee,here are few points,if at all comparison can be done between INDIA & PAKISTAN: 1)Fabric of Country INDIA:Secular PAKISTAN:ISLAMIC 2)Military coup for power siezures INDIA:0 PAKISTAN:5 3)Elected Government INDIA:14 PAKISTAN: 3 4)Internatnl debts:INDIA:$42bn PAKISTAN:$32.5bn 5)GDP'04 INDIA:$650 bn PAKISTAN:$94.80 bn 6)Eco. Growth Rate(1Q '06) INDIA:9.3% PAKISTAN:8.4% 7)Minority Population INDIA:20 mn PAKISTAN: ?? 8)Wars Initiated INDIA: None PAKISTAN: 3(2.5 by Interviewee's own admission) So basically You can't compare a mamoth as diverse as INDIA to a tiny bit of theocracy called PAKISTAN.Only God will decide the course of future but PAKISTAN is no more than a nuisance creating fly on INDIA's radar & one polite request to interviewee, instead of calling us you INDIANS, call us as INDIANS.We don't demean you better be careful in your words towards us.
RE:Future of Pakistan
by Sajid Zaidi on Jun 01, 2007 06:13 PM Permalink
Get your stats right. India is hardly a Secular state because see the Hindu Fundamentalist (BJP)who very proudly say that they are a pure Hindu state. When you talk of wars they were pushed on us by India they attacked us in 65 & than later on in 71 broke half of Pakistan (this has been even confessed by Rahual Ghandi recently)Yes, maybe the 1/2 war was Pakistan's adventure. We had at least 8 elected Govts. plus we have a different culture, not like yours where the rich buys vote from the poor and then say that we have Democracy.
You Indians are so much afarid of PK that all your time & energy is put in countering Pakistan. And look at us we are at much more ease because we have you Indians to worry. Our minority population is about 7% and that too is living in much more peace not like in IND where Hindus are forcing & killing Christians to convert, we don't have any such example. Proud Pakistani.
RE:Future of Pakistan
by mohit singhal on Mar 22, 2007 05:20 PM Permalink
REally, Nice reply .. it must go to the interviewee ... Bhaskar u r also right ...
Pakistan was build on hatred of India, They raised slogans "Hans Hans ke liya hai pakistan lardd lardd ke lenghe Hindustan". In 1947 they told britsh to give them land to balance their feet & remaining they will snatch from hindus. Sindhis,Pakhtoons& Balochis wanted Independance but Nehru/Gandhi thrown these nationalities to wolves. Sindhis met nehru/menon before partition but both laughed it out.Gaffer khan was cold shouldered when he tried for pakhtoonistan. Similarly baloch's cry for independance saw no support from nehru.
RE:Pakistan is our enemy
by Aditya on Mar 21, 2007 08:54 PM Permalink
Why do you keep obsessing over this? India has won the conflict and the Pakistani leaders have come to accept this reality.
It is counterproductive for Indians to keep getting into these juvenile tiffs with Pakistan when there are more pressing concerns at hand: aka how to become a dveloped nation in the next two decades.
Like I said before... India has won this conflict, now it's up to both Indians and Pakistanis to realize this and move on with their lives.
RE:Pakistan is our enemy
by saman ahmed on Jun 03, 2007 04:39 PM Permalink
yes you hindus are indeed our enemy we gained our beloved homeland from you because we could not live with narrow minded people like you we were successful in gaining our homeland and protecting it from enemy i.e india and we will be successful inshallah sindhis pakhtoons and balochis did not want independence remember that these were muslim states the majority there was muslims they were with QUAID E AZAM instead hindu leaders tried there best to separate them in which they failed dont u know that kashmiris still wanted freedom and many other muslim states did not want to become part of india dont you know that anytime first major minority can any time gain its states from india and also in the past many such trials are also carried out in this respect so be careful of your dark future and dont indulge in others business pakistan is indeed your enemy but now you cant give any harm to it because we love it more than our lives as we have proved in the war of 1965 when we were far less devrloped than yours and now we are alhamdulillah atomic power
RE:Kashmir
by Aditya on Mar 21, 2007 08:57 PM Permalink
Nothing. Despite all of India's military deficiencies, they are still a lot better than Pakistan. Musharraf himself has admitted that Kargil was another faliure for Pakistan. Of course he has conveniently blamed the whole thing on Nawaz Sharif.
From the Indian point of view the main thing to learn from that debacle is to never get caught sleeping on the job again... and to upgrade our technology in order to avoid turning thousands of Jawans and officers into cannon fodder.
RE:RE:Kashmir
by Shahryar Pax on Mar 22, 2007 12:09 AM Permalink
Nisar Ali Khan, a former minister and trusted aid to Nawaz Sharif, described Musharraf as "a totally egocentric gentleman."
Army Chief Musharraf, remembering the shame of over 90,000 Pakistani soldiers captured as POWs in 1971, wanted a quick and easy victory by crossing the LOC and occupying the Kargil Heights whilst it was unoccupied by the Indians - he could not hold onto them and his men were left without supplies. To prevent another humiliation with Indians taking Pakistanis as POWs, he had to beg Sharif to ask the Americans to help negotiate a ceasefire!
No one remembers that the BJP Govt. in India were humiliated by Musharraf since Musharraf's Kargil misadventure put an end to their Lahore Peace initiative to settle the Kashmir issue.
His coup against Sharif was primarily to avoid a court-martial for the Kargil fiasco.
