How Good/Bad Are India/Pakistan?

Everything Pakistani is failed and bad and everything Indian is successful and good.

This is the myth that influential parts of the media and academia in the United States and Britian try to promote everyday about Pakistan and its large neighbor to the east, India.

In this video, renowned author William Dalrymple exposes the US-UK propaganda against Pakistan. We are shown as a failed state while India is all success. Not true, says Dalrymple. Pakistan is as successful as India, and India is as failed as Pakistan.

One important point that most analysts miss in discussing India is that the United States and the United Kingdom have designated India as their slave-soldier in Asia for the 21st century.  The Americans and the Brits have pumped up India as the next superpower.

Knowing they can't count on NATO and Europe's help for long, Washington and London want to use India as a source for cheap soldiers in Afghanistan. Cheap because it is cheaper to get Indian soldiers to go to Afghanistan than to get American and British soldiers to do the same. Also, India can be very useful in countering China in the region. Cheap Indian soldiers can be easily deployed, and in large numbers, in southeast Asia to counter Chinese influence. It's diffuclt to get US or British soldiers in large numbers in the same area in a short span of time and do it on a relatively smaller budget.

Just in the first decade of the 21st century, India has seen events such as a religious genocide [over two-thousand Indians burned alive in 2002], a wave of terror against Indian Christians, at least several confirmed incidents of rapings of nuns by Hindu fundamentalists, and one case where an Australian priest was burned alive by Indian mobs along with his two underage sons.

Moving to the treatment of women, India is home to the largest number of cases of forced underage female weddings and cases of newborn baby girls buried alive as a social custom.

But the Am-Brit media gives India a pass on all of these serious issues and violations and focuses instead on Pakistan as a source of all evil.  Of course, Pakistan has its share of problems, huge problems, but these are amplified by the Am-Brit media and twisted to serve the strategic agenda of the United States and the United Kingdom in the region.