It is entirely in the character of Pakistan to refuse India's offer of relief even when Musharraf appeals to the whole world to come to Pakistan's aid. So also Pakistan's "counter offer" to help India with relief ! Remember a few years ago when a Pakistani child was operated free of cost for a serious heart ailment in Bangalore, and India followed up by offering to do similar free surgery for Pakistani children; the response of Pakistan was to offer similar pediatric surgery facilities for Indian children ! Pakistan has this juvenile tendency to compulsively match India at every turn and every event despite being far more economically and technologically backward. With successive rulers (both civilian and military) having dinned into the heads of ordinary Pakistanis that a single Muslim is the equal of ten Hindus and that their strength lies in their "superior belief systems", Pakistanis find it hard to reconcile this muscular talk with ground realities where they find India forging ahead globally while Pakistan continues to live off doles for services rendered to the US and China.
