09-21-2010, 09:09 PM
SSridhar Ji :
Your #346 :
Pakistan has been born as a Beggar Nation in a State of Beggary!
In this respect I draw your attention to my post #309 of 20-November 04 Posted 01 September 2010 at11:34 PM on Page 16 :
[url="http://tribune.com.pk/story/25856/a-nation-in-denial/"][center][color="#006400"][size="5"]A nation in denial[/size][/color][/center][/url]
Here is an excerpt :
Pakistanââ¬â¢s founders were responsible for sowing the seeds of a client-state relationship with the US. As head of a newly-born ââ¬Ëmoth-eaten Pakistanââ¬â¢, to use Jinnahââ¬â¢s own words, and with little or no financial resources, [color="#FF0000"]he was wrong to seek a military solution to Kashmir with Pakistan completely dependent on Britain for its survival and so desperate that *it requested a two-billion dollar loan from America in October 1947* negating the very spirit of independence from colonial rule. The secession of former East Pakistan negated the assumption that religion alone could keep a nation or a country united.[/color]
[color="#FF0000"]* :[/color] This is as per the archived documents, more specifically the memorandum of conversation between Mir Laik Ali and the State Department officials, 30 October 1947., NO. 845F.51/10-3047. This has been cited in Ayesha Jalalââ¬â¢s book, ââ¬ÅThe State of Martial Ruleââ¬Â.
In 1950-51 the Indian GNP was INR 9678 Crores i.e. INR 96.78 Billion
At the Rate of US$ 1 = INR 4.7619 it equated to about US$ 20 Billion
I dare say that as in 1951 Indiaââ¬â¢s Population was about Eleven Times the Present Day Pakistan so that Pakistan's GDP in 1947 would have been around US$ Two Billion.
As such US $ Two Billion was one huge and humongous Amount of ââ¬ÅDoshââ¬Â as in todayââ¬â¢s equivalent it would amount to may be US$ 125 Billion - if not more!
Such are the Powers of Pakistani Beggary and the USAââ¬â¢s penchant for being a ââ¬ÅSucker ââ¬â Bar None!ââ¬Â
Cheers