sanjaykumar wrote: ↑08 Feb 2024 09:44 That enormous disparity in the number of locomotives must reveal something about the two societies. And it ain’t that Pakistanis don’t need trains because they can afford to travel by air.
It speaks to a modernising economy versus a feudal one. Feudal economies are geographically circumscribed. That is they are local. It comments on government priorities. And the forging of a nation. Indians are accepting of other Indians. Actually I am not sure about sikhs and muslims. So Hindus are free to move for education business, marriage. Are rural or even urban Sindhis tolerated in Lahore?
There is grain and industrial goods, cars and missiles to shuttle around by rail… as well as goods to reach the ports for export.
This locomotive statistic really focuses on the degeneracy of national function and purpose in Pakistan. What a remarkable statistic.
sanjaykumar ji,
At one time the demented pakis made an aborted bid to push for "lease" of locomotives and rolling stock from India, by building and spreading a false narrative of the aman ka tamasha variety, hoping that a sympathetic groundswell of public opinion based "big brother generosity" meme would force the hand of the GoI to oblige them.
Those were the heydays of the incestuous lootyens cabal, commie lootera gangstas, jnu, jamia and other academic mafias and their paki pasand jihadi offshoots, and buddi butt like presstitutes, with the patronage of the eyetaalian mafias that ruled the roost in dilli and most foreign embassies had easy access to the innards of the govt ecosystem, all for a price, of course...
https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/50 ... rPRgO.html
https://www.siasat.pk/threads/india-ref ... ost-553785
https://www.brecorder.com/news/3321206/ ... 0923479596