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If you look at the 70 year post independence period of India and Pakistan, Pakistan GDP growth rate from 50's to late 90's were almost twice that of India, specially in the 60's and 70's and during Musharraf era.
India was known for 'Hindu rate of growth of about 2-2.5% per year when Pakistan was growing at above 5% over those years,
After the N.Roa opened up the Indian economy to a more formal economy India witnessed positive growth, in MMS era and now. Pakistan was never a closed economy like earlier India and this is one of the reason that Indians are over awed by recent growth, new cars, new electronic gadgets, new cellular phones and so on and so forth.
Yes it is also true that in the last 10-12 years Pakistan lagged behind India in growth, but that is a temporary thing due to WOT, Corrupt regimes of Zardari and Nawaz, and many other factors...its doesn't necessarily mean Pakistan cannot reach the Indian growth figures in coming years...times and things are changing here in Pakistan at fast pace.
That would be great, but projections can go haywire...check the IMF projections of Brazil and Indonesia now they are nowhere in growth parameters.
Projection could go wrong, but projections are not made irrationally...they have a basis to make such projections. Anyway, according to PWC, by 2050 India's per capita will more than twice that of Pakistan.