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Indians, Pakistanis don't like each other
Notwithstanding recent CBMs and peace initiative between India and Pakistan, people from both the countries continue to view each other in an ‘unfavourable’ and ‘negative’ light, according to an international survey report.
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Midia


I totally agree to the poit of view made earlier, in moments like these, where even the pope is careless in his comments, propagating similar surveys only catalyse the already polarised world. I have always had great friends from all communities and countries and since the past 10 years it seems to be getting extremely difficult to move on without being labelled as Indian, Pakistani, Jew or Sri Lankan for that matter!!
A phrase that I read somewhere resumes all this confusion.
"God created truth, the devil organised it and called it religion"
Midia save our planet..hurry!!!

Posted by: Vinod Kurup, Indian, Brazil, 23-09-2006 at 1636 hours IST

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Indians,Pakistanis don't like each other


History is a fact that the entire subcontinent from the North of HindKush to the deep South of Kerala,India was a single landmass thanks to land divisions by the cunning British new identities were created based on artificial nationality and not on religion or language.By keeping the Hindus and Moslems(in effect the Pakis)British ensured that the subcontinent remained an ocean of hatred,war and poverty.

Posted by: G.Sriniwasan, Australia, 23-09-2006 at 1629 hours IST

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Whats New ?


Thats true and known to all, the question is whats the use of such surveys, instead declaring the existing hatred why not the solutions given to the people.

Posted by: Kaunain Shahidi, India, 23-09-2006 at 1409 hours IST

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I agree to Mr.Misra


I think i should agree to Mr. Misra's opinion that all the problems in the region are because of India's neighbours who are all hostile and unfriendly. India on the other hand is the most friendly & peaceful country in the world and the proof is that it is the only country in the world to have ceasefire agreements with almost all of its neighbours....lols

Posted by: Muhammad Irfan, Pakistan, 23-09-2006 at 1328 hours IST

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Nothing surprising !


Nothing surprising about the survey results ! Barring Pakistan and China no other country views India unfavorably and the reasons are partly cultural and partly historical. In regard to China, the Chinese invasion of 1962 and China grabbing vast territory of India has alienated Indians and the same attitude still persists. In fact, Indians view China with suspicion for its expansionist designs as evident from lits claim to Indian territory in the North-east. Besides, racially, culturally and linguistically India has little in common with China except Buddhism which too has been eliminated during the “cultural revolution” As far as Pakistan is concerned, the country is viewed as a global nursery of terror housing training camps for Muslim Jihadis who infiltrate into India with their murderous missions. The foundation of Pakistan itself was laid on hatred and bloodshed, justified in the name of “two-nation theory”. The Kashmir dispute which has been politicized by successive heads of Pakistan has further embittered the relations notwithstanding that the two countries are culturally closer to each other than to China.

Posted by: Sharad C. Misra, India, 23-09-2006 at 1259 hours IST


Attitudes' Survey

Indians, Pakistanis don't like each other

Press Trust of India
Posted online: Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 1003 hours IST
Updated: Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 1121 hours IST

India-Pakistan Washington, September 23: Notwithstanding recent CBMs and peace initiative between India and Pakistan, people from both the countries continue to view each other in an ‘unfavourable’ and ‘negative’ light, according to an international survey report.

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The two South Asian neighbours are not alone in their acrimonious relationship, with people from China and Japan also showing equal dislike for each other.

The report also found that Indians ‘overwhelmingly’ support improved relations with the United States (70 per cent), and 75 per cent of Indians who know about the proposed nuclear deal between the two countries support it.

But a majority of Indians believe China will overtake the US as the dominant world power, although the Chinese themselves were less optimistic about it.

According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project survey, which was released on Thursday, 50 per cent of Indian respondents find Pakistan ‘unfavourable’ while only 33 per cent gave them the ‘favourable’ tag.

Among the Pakistani respondents, 67 per cent regard Indians as unfavourable.

Among their other neighbours, both the Chinese and Japanese express general unfavourable views of Pakistan, <span style='color:red'>while Chinese tend to feel negatively toward India.

Also, more than half of American respondents had unfavourable views of Pakistan.

The six-nation survey -- conducted in India, Pakistan, China, Japan, the US and Russia -- found that China's growing military strength was seen as threatening by neighbours India, Russia and Japan. Even its burgeoning economy was considered a bad thing by half of Indians. </span>