By Dr Farrukh Saleem

       12/9/2007

        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 f orty-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 t he 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 flo ors 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 Electio n 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

       of

       ten Silicon Valley start-ups are run by Indians. Bolly wood produces

       800 movies per year and s ix 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 sam e 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