India/Pakistan were broken into two seperate countries exactly today 60yrs ago.
Both countries have chosen democracy led parliaments.
In India, the caste system have created a culture and states have been formed on linguistic based and has strong influence of Hinduism, family relationship etc. In general, Indians prefer to have long-standing personal relationships with any country in the world and so far maintained the same relations throughout this period. Due to plenty of available natural resources, India always stoodup on its own and contributed to the world by contributing some of its produces. Not only India has plenty of natural resources, it even produced many talented people, shined and contributing their efforts in number of countries throughout the world. Inspite of having 24 languages in India, sheltered under one umbrella, called INDIA and always beliefs in democratic way of Governments, running, or marching towards to join the band of super powers in all fronts.
Pakistan, though taken birth at the same time, concentric more towards religion and went through many ups and downs. Except for a period, 1973 and 1988-99 democratic form of governments ruled Pakistan and rest of the period, only Military/coup/Dictatorship ruled the Pakistan.
Why this difference when both countries of people of same ethnic origins till Independent? Is it the people, their social and cultural life around influencing to act or behave or induce them OR the persons who has ruled the countries made or shown the present paths???
catzycradle
Never under-estimate the people in Power. But yes you raise a very important point. Is it cultural trends? Could be! It seems to me that people are like lambs in some respects. They can't think for themselves. They go along with the norm that surrounds them. People must challenge conformity in order to grow and evolve. Surely issues concerning power and control over people and countries should be speculated upon. Not everything we see around us is truth and righteousness. It's more a subtle bending of reality, so people won't notice the changes that are coming- socially, culturally and politically.