05-29-2009, 12:21 AM
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1. Jute was a major export earner and was the cause of Pakistan's good financial health for a long time. This was particularly a high value export during the Korean war. As substitutes were invented later, their export value decreased considerably. There is no conspiracy, economists using economic data can prove that<b> East Pakistan subsidized West Pakistan for a long time.</b>
2. Pakistanis and later Indians ransacked and destroyed the country from head to foot. Indians literally carried away our assets on trains.
3. Bangladesh has the highest concentration of population of any decent sized country. According to estimates, the country will eventually go underwater due to global warming. <b>There are few places we can go (my idea is to colonize Antarctica)</b>.
4. We all need to understand Machiavelli a bit better. As long as you don't touch a man's property, livelihood and honor, you are fine. <b>As East Pakistanis, we felt treated like an inferior race and degraded. Our language ridiculed and suppressed</b>. All this, while being the majority in the country. West Pakistanis behaved like the new Goras. No nation will accept such treatment, and you would have lost that war whether India intervened or not.
5. Since many of you have grown up reading "Pakistan Studies" (and I too have read these books of fiction), you are unlikely to know much about what happened or the history. Even the simple and harmless facts are wrong. For instance<b>, you celebrate "23rd March" when the actual event was on the 24th (actually passed on the wee morning of the 25th). </b>
6. Present circumstances in Pakistan are sad and I agree that there is massive foreign involvement. Nevertheless, there are clear and coherent reasons, and the fact that at this fora you are blind to the elephant in the room is most disheartening; there are clear reasons why Pakistan is in this state, and more than evil India, your own choices are to blame.
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1. Jute was a major export earner and was the cause of Pakistan's good financial health for a long time. This was particularly a high value export during the Korean war. As substitutes were invented later, their export value decreased considerably. There is no conspiracy, economists using economic data can prove that<b> East Pakistan subsidized West Pakistan for a long time.</b>
2. Pakistanis and later Indians ransacked and destroyed the country from head to foot. Indians literally carried away our assets on trains.
3. Bangladesh has the highest concentration of population of any decent sized country. According to estimates, the country will eventually go underwater due to global warming. <b>There are few places we can go (my idea is to colonize Antarctica)</b>.
4. We all need to understand Machiavelli a bit better. As long as you don't touch a man's property, livelihood and honor, you are fine. <b>As East Pakistanis, we felt treated like an inferior race and degraded. Our language ridiculed and suppressed</b>. All this, while being the majority in the country. West Pakistanis behaved like the new Goras. No nation will accept such treatment, and you would have lost that war whether India intervened or not.
5. Since many of you have grown up reading "Pakistan Studies" (and I too have read these books of fiction), you are unlikely to know much about what happened or the history. Even the simple and harmless facts are wrong. For instance<b>, you celebrate "23rd March" when the actual event was on the 24th (actually passed on the wee morning of the 25th). </b>
6. Present circumstances in Pakistan are sad and I agree that there is massive foreign involvement. Nevertheless, there are clear and coherent reasons, and the fact that at this fora you are blind to the elephant in the room is most disheartening; there are clear reasons why Pakistan is in this state, and more than evil India, your own choices are to blame.
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