[BITList] Written by a Pakistani journalist about India

[John Feltham]

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By Dr Farrukh Saleem

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 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
> often 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; 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 have and we don't?
> INDIANS ELECT THEIR LEADERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> And also to mention: They think of Construction of own nation, unlike
> other nations who are just concerned with destruction of others...
>
> Simple answer why the Indian fare better than the Pakis'.. They don't
> focus on religion and neither do they spend time and money in devising
> ways to kill their own and everyone else over religion.



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