you know why they cannot buy big houses in Mumbai because it is frikkin expensive..
I used to live in Powai which had a rate of 18000 rs per square feet that comes to around 34000 Pakistani rupees per square feet.
When i did search on Google the rates are 3000 to 6000 Pakistani rupees per square feet..
By selling one flat in Mumbai I can buy a friggin block in Pakistan..
Did you give it a thought?
Yeah, and if one sells a penthouse in New York, it can buy........ blah blah blah.
DHA is as expensive as most part of Mumbai, you didn't hear in the first video a 200 square yards plot in commercial area is over 20 Crores.
As I said to you, Karachi is huge in size compare to Mumbai. The DHA alone is bigger than whole city of Mumbai. Therefore, the land is slightly cheaper. They don't live in small apartments but reasonably good houses. Secondly, Karachi is on the fault lines, so in the past, they didn't allow taller buildings, otherwise, Karachities have plenty of money to build tall buildings, but they wouldn't get the planning permissions.
With new building and construction technologies, they have relaxed the rules slightly; new taller buildings are under construction now. Otherwise the standard height was 12 floors over that you will struggle to get the planning permissions. You will see lots of buildings of this height in Karachi. Secondly, all the new areas of Karachi are planned on the basis, that on the main roads are commercial areas where you can build shops and flats and behind them are houses. So when you driving around you see flats on the main roads, but thats all the rest are houses.
You also get one thing straight, Pakistanis are far better off then what their national stats show, most of the people don't pay taxes, thats why Pakistan is in budgetary problems. Tax ratio in Pakistan is only 8% compare to India's 18%.
So if Pakistan get little tough on levying and collection of the taxes, Pakistan's per capita income would be twice of India and there would be no need for loans of any kind.
You Indians should remember Pakistan's problem are only skin deep, they can over come them very quickly provided they have honest administration. Whatever their budget deficit is, can be wiped off, by just applying better administration and collection without even increasing the tax burden or widening the net of the Tax. Imagine what can be done by increasing it to the level of 18%.
Like I said, I had been kidding with you. If you think I don't know how world works, then you are mistaken. Remember I am a westerner.
My family knows India if I have never been there, so I know most of the things about your country. You guys should wise up and do not cross the line. Like I said, patriotism is not a bad thing, but being stupid or ignorant in your patriotism is not a good idea. Pakistanis are very self critical.
We are also far more democratic and tolerant compare to Indians, despite whatever misconceptions you have. There can not be any better example than this or other forums like it, where you are given full say in discussions. If we were not mentally more democratic and tolerant we wouldn't allow you on our forums.
Compare to Pakistani forums, Indian forums, websites, newspapers don't allow comments from Pakistanis. I have tried for years, they never publish my comments. Similarly ridiculous attitude shown on these threads.
Admit people of Karachi in general live in far better conditions than the people of your biggest and richest city Mumbai. Therefore, remove your false misconceptions and stop writing nasty comments. That is the message I wanted to hammer home.
Let us come out of the 30 years+ war in Afghanistan we will catch up on Dubai quickly. Karachi would have developed if these wars were not imposed on us, and we having not to face RAW sponsored terrorist in Karachi including a political party. At least in Karachi the apartments and offices would be occupied rather than becoming ghost towns in Dubai.
