hi diffrence between India nad Pakistan
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- India is 80 percent Hindu and 5 percent muslims.
- Pakistan is 45 percent Punjabi, 15 percent Pashtun, 14 percent Sindhi, and ~25 percent from several other South Asian ethnicities. India is 50 percent Indo-Aryan, 25 percent Dravidian, and 3 percent other.
- India festivals that are been celebrates Makar Sankranti ,Maha Shivaratri,Holi,Raksha Bandhan, Navratri,Diwali,Ganesh Chaturthi.
- Pakistan festival that are been celebrated Shab-e-Barat,Ramadan,Youm-e-Ali,Eid-ul-Fitr,Eid-ul-Azha,Ashura,Eid Milad-un-Nabi,Basant Sibi Mela,Shandur Polo Festival , Broghil Festival , Pakistan Day , Pakistani Independence Day
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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.
Now, sixty years later, India seems to me to be a robust democracy, with a vibrant economy. It feeds its own people. Pakistan is on the verge of being a failed state, the economy is in shambles, and the country requires foreign aid to survive.
During the run-up to the Iraq war, there was a great deal of discussion in the States of what is necessary for a democracy to take hold. Talking heads exploded onto the cable news scene, and academics, political wonks, and governmental experts alike weighed in on the issue. When the rhetoric and political jockeying was set aside, some interesting questions were in fact being asked. What are the necessary ingredients for a democracy to succeed?
Some of the components that were cited as prerequisites were: the rule of law, a high literacy rate, a political class, an independent judiciary, and a free press. India and Pakistan offer a valuable lesson on this important question. While the British were focused on their own interests, they inadvertently set off a controlled experiment in democracy. Interestingly, many of the “necessary” ingredients were not present in either India or Pakistan at the time of Independence. Thus, returning us to the original question of how did India survive and Pakistan fall into the cycle of dictatorship-ineffective government-dictatorship.
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