Comments on: Kya Pakistan or India Tom and Jerry hain?

By: Farhan Jaffar

Farhan Jaffar — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Wow… Excellent comment

By: Farhan Jaffar

Farhan Jaffar — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How true…

Its sad that muslims and indians take pride in getting divided and separated. We dont realize the ‘divide and conquer’ rule is never a help. You are very right, we need to think in terms of regional security, prosperity and welfare of people in the subcontinent rather than spending our resources on confronting each other. Even if we think in terms of religious priorities, the fact that muslims growth rate being much more than the indians would lead ultimately to the transfer of power in subcontinent to the muslims. Its sad that we make national heroes out of the people who were short sighted and were merely pawns in the hands of the Britiain serving their interests.

Well I take pride in being a Pakistani, but the division was to serve the purpose of welfare of the people rather than to be a place where the politicians, the aristocrats and the powerful turn into vultures living on the flesh of the poor…

By: Aurangzeb Khan

Aurangzeb Khan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

My apologies to Tom and Jerry.

By: DK

DK — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Naim, just refresh your history – instead of reading text books written by Gen Zia & company read better authors.

By: DK

DK — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, Ahmedabad was bad episode – but we in India learn from mistakes/errors and there are checks & balances in system. India may not have the best systems in place but it has systems that deliver and Democracy works here.

Just to refresh your memory there were around 12-13 % Muslims living in India at the time of partition & there was similar number of Hindus & Sikhs in Pakistan. Do you know the percentage now? Muslims have not only survived – they have prospered in India but Pakistan has less than 3% minority population. Do you know the reasons? or ever want to know the reason?

By: sai

sai — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It’s hard to accept the truth. But you cannot ignore the truth or hide from truth. The early the Pakistani realise it is better.

By: Umesh

Umesh — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Muslims in Ahmedabad are more prosperous (and are more gainfully employed) than their counterparts in any part of India

By: Sufi

Sufi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

My friend, I know many friends who in Ahmedabad and are Muslims and let me tell you truth is not what you see because it is largely twisted and manipulated. So search for some details on your own and you will come to know. Also its been 8 years since it happened and still I see people in Pakistan revise this again. But if I am talking about India there are many other issues as well and are not shown to you anyway.

Same with Hyderabad, that issue is not about religion for gods sake, its ‘regional’ issue and let me tell you, at least India most (not all) riots are part of political clashes but showed as riots, even Muslim leaders or secular leader are there to encourage riots without any reason just to gain political advantage so don’t get misled and conclude about whole country.

I assume some people has their interests in making Pakistani people hate India and that’s why selective stories are published and views spread across. Things are different on both sides but if common people keep believing all such stories then peace will be always difficult to get.

By: Raviraaj

Raviraaj — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Mr khan,

India is not 63 year old…it is much more than that.

Yes…Pakistan is only 63 year old….

By: Hasan

Hasan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

It is tragic that people of both countries now do not acknowledge a shared heritage.
The Germans are smart. Divided since world war II they reunited in the nineties and are now an economic powerhouse. The Koreans have a movement going on to unite Korea one day.
Yet the people of the subcontinet chose to stay divided and waste their resources. Creation of a country on a religious basis is antithetical to a 21st century ethos. Pakistan was supposed to be the homeland for Muslims in the sub continent. That did not happen. Even it got splintered into Bangladesh. It is easy to see the two countries based on religion in South Asia (Bangladesh and Pakistan) having a tough time, while the one based on secular ideology growing from strength. There is a time in the history of separated people when the older generation that carries the seed of a common past is still alive. Once that generation is gone, the new generation will see nothing in common with each other. Nothing like Tom and Jerry, India and Pakistan are more like a couple that has gone through a bitter divorce and each is hell bent on making sure that the kids in its custody see the other parent as evil. The kids suffer in any such situation. I just wish the two countries realize that whether they like it or not they had a common past and they are destined to exist hugging each other in the geography of South Asia.