Question

Differentate between Pakistan and India. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Food: Pakistan = non-veg, India = veg

Language: Urdu & Devanagari Script

A Few More Differences:‐

English is more prevalent in India.

There seemed to be less poverty in Pakistan.

Streets are generally cleaner in Pakistan.

Very few stray animals in Pakistan.

Driving on motorways in Pakistan is much safer because the Police are very strict with fines. If people speed, don’t stay in their lane or don’t use their indicators when changing lanes, they get a fine.

There are no liquor stores in Pakistan.

There are more women out and about on the streets in India.

Women in India are more approachable in general.

Answer 2

Explanation:

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India and Pakistan: what’s the difference?

If India and Pakistan were cut from the same geographic and ethnic cloth, with the same parliamentary-style system, why is India held to be a vibrant democracy today and Pakistan a political basket case?

Lakhmir Chawla

2 November 2010

I was having dinner with a friend of mine, and he asked me what were the key differences between Indians and Pakistanis. I am a Punjabi Sikh born and raised in the US, and all of my family is originally from what is now current day Pakistan, but moved to what is current-day India as a consequence of Partition (the splitting of India by the British at the time of Independence). Thus, my friend assumed that I should be knowledgeable about both sides. We talked for a while about the history of the region and the cultural differences of the two countries. My friend then asked a simple question: If India and Pakistan were cut from the same geographic and ethnic cloth, and since both countries started off at the same time with the same parliamentary-style system, why is India a vibrant democracy today and Pakistan a political basket case?

At the time, I did not have a good answer. For many weeks, the question bothered me. Both countries started off at the exact same time, August 14-15, 1947. Both countries inherited a British civil service architecture, an intact local government system, and an intact British railroad system for communication and transportation infra-structure. Both countries had a strong political class borne out of the struggle for independence from Great Britain, and both countries had identified a charismatic leader with strong credentials and the public support of their respective constituencies (Jawaharlal Nehru and Ali Jinnah).

The more I thought about it, the more commonalities I came up with. Both countries were a combination of princely states and semi-autonomous regions with a multitude of spoken languages. Pakistan was made up of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, Bangladesh, and the Northwest Frontier Provinces. India was made up of over fifteen disparate regions. Both countries had poor literacy rates (@15%) and a large majority religion: Islam and Hinduism, respectively. Neither region was rich in any natural resource and neither country had any history of any type of democratic process. Both countries were rural and primarily agrarian-based. Neither country inherited a monarchy or ruling family. Neither country is landlocked, and both share a wide geographic range (from fertile plains, deserts, mountains). Both countries generated their own constitutions and opted for a British style parliamentary system.