A Duplicitous State

 A little bit about Pakistan compared to India, two countries that are on a verge of war as of May 3, 2025

India, a country of 1.4 billion people and a $4 trillion dollar economy, largely a Hindu population with about 15 percent(approx. 250 million) Muslim population, is about to go to war with Pakistan of $375 Billion GDP and 250 million people, 99 percent Muslim. India is an ancient pluralistic civilization while Pakistan’s origin dates back to 1947, as a country formed because Muslims were not willing to live with Hindus. This thought process was codified as two nation theory and is taught in all Pakistani schools as a big accomplishment. India is also the world’s largest representative democracy, while Pakistan has been run by military dictatorship pretty much all of its life for the last 75 years. 

On April 22, 2025, Pakistani terrorists cornered some tourists in India, checked their genitals for identification of whether they are circumcised and then killed them at point blank range. This act of savagery while aligned to the terrorist’s religious calling, killed 28 people, and shocked, saddened and angered everyone from the civilized world. Similar terrorist attacks such as at Taj Hotel  in Bombay with over 150 murdered or on Indian Parliament have happened for decades. Like for 9/11 though, the backers and supporters of this atrocity, have started blaming the victims for doing it to themselves. 

A few empirical, verifiable datapoints about two countries, that may be lost in the fog of war. 

1. Nature and size of economies, i.e. responsible governance: Pakistan exports total about $30 billion of goods and services, mostly raw material while India exports $820 billion worth. This is about 27 times that of Pakistan. India’s exports include tech, manufactured good and top of the line armaments. GDP ratio between India/Pakistan is 10x. Muslim population ratio between India/Pakistan is 1.2. Yes, there are more muslims in India than in all of Pakistan.
2. Pakistan has gone to IMF over 28 times so far to gain access to life supporting funding.
3. As of this moment Pakistan is financially a failed state, having sold their sovereignty to China in return for 30 Billion of dollars of loans from China against what is called CPEC, China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a money that they can never pay back, and are in classic debt trap that China creates. Pakistan is now just borrowing money to pay back interest on current debt. Their current foriegn exchange reserves stand at $8 Billion, most of which they cannot touch. India’s forex reserves on the contrary stand at is close to 700 Billion, one of the highest in the world.
4. Pakistan’s other critical export is terrorism. Osama Bin Laden hid there for six years while Pakistani Army that runs the government, kept taking money by hundreds of millions from US to search for him. Eventually he was found in Abbotabad Pakistan, few miles for Army HQ. So US got first hand taste of Pakistani duplicity. Osama Bin Laden is considered a hero by a majority of Pakistani people, including it’s army. All Pakistani generals become worth hundreds of millions of dollars and settle in Australia, UK and Canada after retirement, from a country as impoverished as Pakistan. 
5. In Britain, Pakistani grooming / Rape gangs, that ran for decades, grooming and then raping and extorting young white British girls. Apparantly there are provisions in their theology that allow for this treatment of non-muslims(Kafirs)
6. A Pakistani man also committed terrorism in Times Square and also there are innumerable examples of Pakistani terrorists across western Europe, in blowing up buses in UK to many attacks in Germany and across Europe.
7. Pakistani military is unique in winning medals while killing their own people, but they have started and lost 4 wars with India.
8. Like North Korea Pakistan has been able to build Atomic Bomb, and they like to shake their fingers in everyone’s face with that threat including opposing cricket teams who score too many runs against their team. Their players are also known to do “Namaz” on the field, rather than playing well, in a display of rather curious mindset. 
9. They also wear Islam on their sleeves and their military chief recently spoke about muslims not willing and able to live with non-muslims anywhere, because they are different, a line of thought that created the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, at the cost of untold human suffering, including 2-4 million people dying. Interestingly he was giving the speech to Pakistan’s international diaspora, each of whom live in other countries side by side with non-muslims. 
10. Pakistan’s Hindu population which was 15-20 percent at the time of partition in 1947 has been reduced to 1 percent, under coercion, destroyed economic opportunity and rapes and then forcible marriages and conversions of Hindu girls. 
11. Recently Pakistani people have been banned from getting Saudi Arabia visas because they go there in the name of doing Hajj and instead become a begging nuisance. 
12. Because China does not want a strong power in it’s neighbourhood, it uses Pakistan as a lap dog to keep India engaged in ongoing conflicts. 
13. Pakistan split into two countries in 1971 and seems to be unwieldy currently, wobbling under the weight of atrocities committed in Baluchistan and the demand for an independent Baluch state, which Baluchistan was after British left until Pakistani army occupied a nascent country before it had any chances of standing on it’s own feet.
14. While in other cases, a country has an army. In case of Pakistan an army has a country. However after 1999 skirmish with India, Pakistani army refused to accept the bodies of their own dead soldiers. In 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to India. However they killed 3 million Bengali civilians and raped 2,00,000 Bengali women, according to Bangladesh, an act of genocide and terror for which Bangladesh now demands apology and recompense.

If one were to design a more duplicitous and damaging entity, harmful to it’s own people and to the world at large, you may run out of imagination before getting to what Pakistan has already proven itself to be. It is not a surprise that in the highest corridors of power, globally, there are serious concerns as to whether the global community is served well by allowing Pakistan to exist in it’s current form, with a Nuclear Arsenal.