Shooting at malls. Shooting at bars. Shooting at schools. Shooting at rallies. Shooting on tourists. Shooting on diners. Shooting on babies. Shooting even at the President despite all the security. Drugs, Guns, and Crimes everywhere.
And other countries are "Hellhole?" Right.
Lower than even Nepal is a big surprise, although the gap is tiny and fluctuates. But this gap on per capita incomes will only rise given Pakistan’s very high birth rates. India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka are at replacement levels or a little lower. Pakistan population is growing at least 1.5X of its Subcontinental neighbours
One wedding in Lahore and suddenly India is asked to rethink its entire position.
Meet Sahiba Bali. A short visit, warm people, good food and a conclusion that maybe the hostility is exaggerated. It sounds reasonable on the surface because human interactions often are. Ordinary people on both sides are capable of warmth. That part is true.
But what is being missed is how nations form their positions. They do not do it on the basis of individual experiences. They do it on consequences over time. India’s stance is not emotional or reactionary. It has been shaped by repeated incidents that are documented and investigated.
In 2005, the Delhi blasts killed more than sixty people. In 2008, Mumbai was attacked for nearly three days and 166 people were killed in a coordinated operation. The attackers were traced back to Pakistan based groups and handlers. In 2016, the Pathankot airbase was targeted. The same year Uri happened where nineteen soldiers were killed. In 2019, Pulwama saw forty CRPF personnel lose their lives. These are not isolated events.
At the same time, Ordinary Pakistanis are not responsible for state actions. Many of them also live with their own constraints and narratives. So the distinction between people and the state is real and necessary. Ofc.
Where the critique of voices like Sahiba’s becomes valid is not because she spoke about human warmth. That part is not wrong. It becomes a problem when a limited personal experience is used to suggest that a long and complex security issue is simply a matter of perception. That reduces a structural problem into an emotional misunderstanding.
There is also a class dimension here. It is easier to argue for softer views when one is insulated from the consequences of policy failure. The costs of getting this wrong are not borne by those who speak in abstract terms. They are borne by soldiers on the border and civilians in cities.
So the honest position has to hold two truths together. People to people interactions can be warm and genuine. But state behavior, especially when it shows continuity over years, cannot be brushed aside because of those interactions.
A pleasant experience can change how you see individuals. We have friends from all across the globe. Good for you n good for everyone. Cherish them. But it cannot rewrite history or negate security concerns. That distinction is where the entire debate sits.
Jensen Huang just explained why China is winning the technology race in two sentences.
Huang: “Our country’s leaders… they’re mostly lawyers. Most of their leaders are incredible engineers.”
One country sends engineers to lead. The other sends lawyers.
One builds. The other regulates what was already built.
Huang: “They showed up at precisely the time when technology is going through that exponential.”
China did not stumble into the AI era. They arrived engineered for it.
The education system produces engineers at a scale the West refuses to match. The competition is not tough. It is Darwinian.
The culture rewards builders.
Not commentators. Not consultants. Builders.
Then the accelerant. Open source.
When your talent pool runs that deep and that hungry, you do not hoard breakthroughs. You release them.
The community multiplies everything. What costs American companies a quarter, Chinese teams finish in weeks.
Not because they are smarter. Because the entire system points one direction. Zero friction between idea and execution.
No committee. No review board. No eighteen-month compliance process.
Then Huang said the part that should terrify Washington.
Huang: “Their country was built out of poverty.”
Comfort makes nations careful. Poverty makes nations relentless.
When you built everything from nothing, you do not slow down to protect it. You accelerate because you still taste what nothing felt like.
America built its dominance with engineers.
The highways. The moon landing. The semiconductor. The internet.
Then it handed the keys to the lawyers.
Compliance departments. Regulatory bodies. Oversight committees. Review processes for the review processes.
Every layer of protection is a layer of friction.
And friction is a luxury you cannot afford when your competitor rides an exponential curve.
Fridman: “It’s a builder nation.”
Huang: “Yeah, it’s a builder nation.”
No pushback. No qualifier.
The West is not being outspent. It is being out-structured.
Engineers ask how do we build this faster. Lawyers ask how do we build this without getting sued.
One of those questions wins the century. The other writes a detailed report about why it lost.
@RahulKoul86@pakistan_untold Absolute CRINGE , if DNA is the benchmark for civilisation then each individual’s DNA is traced back to Africa from where each of us evolved!Subcontinent was systematically destroyed by Islamic & British colonialism , same way communist coined Hindu rate of growth!! It’s not DNA