Bangladesh is only mildly better

and the fact Pakistan tells its kids to hate India

They are trying to forge a national narrative to get the ppl on the same page

even though Pakistan are the aggressors

and put an emphasis on infrastructure development to integrate the country with itself

I read their program from last year's elections

@tea_in_space Not really

never mind the fact Pakistan is currently is occupying balochistan which is pro west

It was the British colonial rule which started it

one of the MAJOR points is "build more storage space for merchandise"

so that poorer regions can get some kind of logistical nodes

to serve as connections to the greater whole

like a huge mistake was creating Pakistan but as they say no point in crying over split milk

It wasn't a mistake lmao

It was a good thing

If there was no Pakistan, there WOULD be ethnic cleansings

Separating them into two separate dominions

no way 'round it

The two countries are split on ethic and religious lines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India#Independence,_population_transfer,_and_violence

You could argue for maybe a confederal solution

but the Pakis clearly don want it

"Once the lines were established, about 14.5 million people crossed the borders to what they hoped was the relative safety of religious majority. The 1951 Census of Pakistan identified the number of displaced persons in Pakistan at 7,226,600, presumably all Muslims who had entered Pakistan from India."

The Raj was a British creation anyway

it was just a colony

its boundaries did not represent local, historical baoundaries

or ethnic

Exactly

or any other

Hence we have massive issues in the ME today

yes

https://twitter.com/trolley_rebel/status/1158516101044670464

Brits also pitted the minorities against one another to some extent

As a means to facilitate staying in power

Keep them fighting each other and not us.

ye

s'hard to account for what impact that had long term though

Well that wasn't taken into consideration

Because it was assumed, more troops could be stationed there

The Parsis were very much used by the Brits, yet they are entirely fine and no one minds them.

No, I mean what impact it ended up having on he situation today