Pakistan PM Imran Khan is ready to share a cash transfer scheme to deal with COVID-19 in India. Has India accepted this?

Pakistan PM Imran Khan is ready to share a cash transfer scheme to deal with COVID-19 in India. Has India accepted this?

 Imran Khan (PM of Pakistan)

 Pakistan Prime minister Imran Khan announced he is ready to share a cash transfer scheme with India, citing a report which stated that 34 percent of Indian households will not be able to persist for more than a week without support.

Imran Khan presented this announcement after tweeting a report which claimed that due to rising cases of COVID-19 in India approximately 84 percent of Indian households were reporting reductions in income since the lockdown.

“Our govt successfully transferred Rs. 120 billion in 9 weeks to over 10 million families in a transparent manner to deal with the COVID-19 fallout on the poor,” Imran Khan tweeted.

Acc to this report, 34% of households across India will not be able to survive for more than a week without add assistance. I am ready to offer help & share our successful cash transfer prog, lauded internationally for its reach & transparency, with India.https://t.co/CcvUf6wERM

— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) June 11, 2020

Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had also batted for cash transfer stating the money should be put straight in the pockets of the people. He also continued that ‘Nyay’ could be executed for a short period to help the people in trouble.

Rahul presented this statement after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman declared three tranches of the relief package after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Rs 20 lakh crore package.

As of now the size of India's Economy has become $2088 billion which held it as the 7th largest economy in the entire world. On the other hand, the size of Pakistan's economy is about $273 billion. So, India's GDP is almost 7 times greater than Pakistan's economy. But when it comes to the population the greater population in India makes it challenging in the efficient transfer of cash and as India is being termed a subcontinent, it has a lot of diverse landmasses which is also a major concern.

Is Pakistan scared as India is rising into a superpower?

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.

Narendra Modi (PM of India)

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.