India-Pakistan... The Difference

The Indian Chromosome
By Dr Farrukh Saleem (Of Pakistan)
The
News, December 09, 2007
(http://watandost. blogspot.
com/2007/ 12/difference- between-india- and-pakistan. html)


Twenty-five thousand years
ago, haplogroup R2 characterized by genetic marker M124 arose in southern
Central Asia . Then began a major wave of human
migration whereby members migrated southward to present-day
India and
Pakistan
(Genographic Project by the National Geographic Society; http://www.national
geographic. com/ ). Indians and Pakistanis have the
same ancestry and share the same DNA sequence. Here's what is happening in

India :

The two Ambani
brothers can buy 100 percent of every company listed on the Karachi Stock
Exchange (KSE) and would still be left with $30 billion to spare. The four
richest Indians can buy up all goods and services produced over a year by 169
million Pakistanis and still be left with $60 billion to spare. The four richest
Indians are now richer than the forty richest Chinese.

In November,
Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex flirted with 20,000 points. As a
consequence, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries became a $100 billion company
(the entire KSE is capitalized at $65 billion). Mukesh owns 48 percent of
Reliance.

In November, comes Neeta's birthday. Neeta turned forty-four
three weeks ago. Look what she got from her husband as her birthday present: A
sixty-million dollar jet with a custom fitted master bedroom, bathroom with mood
lighting, a sky bar, entertainment cabins, satellite television, wireless
communication and a separate cabin with game consoles. Neeta is Mukesh Ambani's
wife, and Mukesh is not
India 's richest but the second
richest.

Mukesh is now building his new home, Residence Antillia (after
a mythical, phantom island somewhere in the Atlantic
Ocean ). At a cost of $1 billion this would be the most expensive
home on the face of the planet. At 173 meters tall Mukesh's new family
residence, for a family of six, will be the equivalent of a 60-storeyed
building. The first six floors are reserved for parking. The seventh floor is
for car servicing and maintenance. The eighth floor houses a mini-theatre. Then
there's a health club, a gym and a swimming pool. Two floors are reserved for
Ambani family's guests. Four floors above the guest floors are family floors all
with a superb view of the Arabian Sea . On top
of everything are three helipads. A staff of 600 is expected to care for the
family and their family home.

In 2004,
India became the
3rd most attractive foreign direct investment destination.
Pakistan wasn't
even in the top 25 countries. In 2004, the United Nations, the representative
body of 192 sovereign member states, had requested the Election Commission of
India to assist the UN in the holding of elections in Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah
and Dowlat-e Eslami-ye Afghanestan. Why the Election Commission of

India and not the Election Commission
of Pakistan? After all, Islamabad is closer to
Kabul than is
Delhi .

Imagine, 12 percent of all
American scientists are of Indian origin; 38 percent of doctors in

America are Indian; 36 percent of
NASA scientists are Indians; 34 percent of Microsoft employees are Indians; and
28 percent of IBM employees are Indians.

For the record: Sabeer Bhatia
created and founded Hotmail. Sun Microsystems was founded by Vinod Khosla. The
Intel Pentium processor, that runs 90 percent of all computers, was fathered by
Vinod Dham. Rajiv Gupta co-invented Hewlett Packard's E-speak project. Four out
of ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by
Indians. Bollywood produces 800 movies per year and six Indian ladies have won
Miss Universe/Miss World titles over the past 10 years.

For the record:
Azim Premji, the richest Muslim entrepreneur on the face of the planet, was born
in Bombay and now lives in
Bangalore .
India now has more than three
dozen billionaires (in dollars);
Pakistan has none (not a single
dollar billionaire) .

The other amazing aspect is the rapid pace at
which
India is creating wealth. In 2002,
Dhirubhai Ambani, Mukesh and Anil Ambani's father, left his two sons a fortune
worth $2.8 billion. In 2007, their combined wealth stood at $94 billion. On 29
October 2007, as a result of the stock market rally and the appreciation of the
Indian rupee, Mukesh became the richest person in the world, with net worth
climbing to US$63.2 billion (Bill Gates, the richest American, stands at around
$56 billion).

Indians and Pakistanis have the same Y-chromosome
haplogroup. We have the same genetic sequence and the same genetic marker
(namely: M124). We have the same DNA molecule, the same DNA sequence. Our
culture, our traditions and our cuisine are all the same. We watch the same
movies and sing the same songs. What is it that Indians do and we don't: Indians
elect their leaders.