Is Pakistan scared as India is rising into a superpower?
Imran Khan (PM of Pakistan)
There is a possibility of a core problem happening if India becomes a great economic superpower and Pakistan remains a bankrupt nuclear power, then the entire operation of breaking India to make a nation for the ‘pure’ could become meaningless.
Some years ago when relationships with Pakistan were in a good period, the Indian cricket team went on tour to the Islamic Republic. When they played in Lahore, many Indian cricket fans passed the border to lend the team support. The Indian economy in those times was exploding with animal spirits. So among these fans were Indian industrialists who dropped in private jets.
A Pakistani friend stated later that it was when they saw those private planes arrive that they first understood how far ahead of Pakistan the Indian economy had reached. It was great to see, she continued, that it was not just Arab billionaires who were having all the pleasure. But, I knew from the way she spoke this that most maximum Pakistanis were not nice about this.
As someone who knows Pakistan well, I discovered long ago that nothing scares Pakistanis more than the probability that India could win and Pakistan fail. It may seem from Imran Khan’s recent rantings about the ‘fascist, Hindu Supremacist Modi government’ that it is Kashmir that Pakistanis consider more than anything. This is not correct. Kashmir is not the ‘core problem’ among India and Pakistan as military men and jihadists next door like to say.
India is now more powerful economically, but we would have been much, much more powerful if we had not returned to economic policies that try to redistribute wealth without first creating it.
The last bilateral series played between India and Pakistan was on 2012, which was held in India.
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