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2007-06-29 India-Pakistan

India is perversely fortunate to have Pakistan as a neighbour

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Posted by John Frum 2007-06-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 India is like a child born into poverty but on the way to becoming a success due to a wholesome value system and the ability to play well with others.

Pakistan is like India's deformed younger sibling with a sense of inferiority, a creeping persecution complex, antisocial traits and a desire to hang out with the wrong crowd.

The visible comparison between the two nations is almost like a controlled experiment in a laboratory of Islamic culture's ability to poison and warp one people who would otherwise be virtually identical to the other.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-06-29 04:55|| 2007-06-29 04:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Ahh... the Wuthering Heights analysis of politics and the sub-continent.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-06-29 14:24|| 2007-06-29 14:24|| Front Page Top

#3 majoritarian state constitutionally defined by faith fights a losing battle against ideologues who can wheel out the howitzers of revelation against the pragmatic, necessarily compromising nature of democratic politics

Or any rational politics whatsoever. I wish everybody who's committed to democratization (and/or pragmatic cooperation with local dictators) of MME, would study Pakistan.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-29 14:29|| 2007-06-29 14:29|| Front Page Top

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