Save this comment and reread it in 33 years. South Asia will NEVER be developed. By 2050, Sub-saharan Africa will have but the Subcontinent will be struggling. The people don't have it in them to better themselves. You have to go back 2,300 years to get an example of the only time someone with South Asian blood running through their veins made a state worth while. That guy was the exception, literally once in 2000 year change. Now that rule has returned back to South Asians don't expect anything good to happen.
I live in the West. I was nurtured in the West. I was educated in the West. I know the West. I can fcuk the West everyday. I have total and absolute faith in my people. Pakistan has the talent. Our ancestors built Mehr Garh, our ancestors were doing dentistry when the West was trying to figure out what is the sac that hangs between the legs for, our ancestors built Taxila, Sirkap, Harappa, our ancestors were using zero when the West could not count the fingers. I have no idea where come from but my ancestral village has more civilization within 100 mile of it then some entire European countries. From what I have obserbed of Pakistanis in UK - they are more shrewd then the indigenous population.
Where we have fcuked up in Pakistan is we have mixed religion with politics and created a toxic product that is literally killing us. So I have no doubt about the genious of my people. Only iy is frustrating to know that it will take another two generations before we get past the haze created by religion.
If anything Pakistan has underformed massively with the resources you have. Pakistan will solve it's security issues before the rest of us will solve our more complex problems.
We have better geography. We have the best physical human stock in South Asia - excuse my arrogance here. We have better location. We have better civilizational history as you know Indus was fulcrum in the ancient world. We even have better infrastructure. We have better and cleaner cities etc.
But we do
not have clear vision. We are a
fractured polity. We are in a religious
quicksand. And this is like a huge weight
chained around our neck and I can't see how we will get past it for at least 1-2 generations. The recent Faizabad demonstrations
expose our problems better than anything else. No number of ballistic nuclear missiles, Block 52 F-16s, 1,000 of tanks, elite armoured divisions, attack helicopters, nuclear submarines is going to overcome our craven display of leadership in face of Islamists chaos. This quote by the honourable judge says it all -
"If you cannot secure the federal capital, how will you secure the country?" he asked, addressing the government"
https://www.dawn.com/news/1373841/a...heir-questionable-role-in-the-faizabad-sit-in