Non-identical twins. With similarities.

"In the heart of Marriabad, a congested area dominated by the Hazara community, a clean street leads to a house where Shahida Raza - a Pakistani national who drowned in a boat accident off Italy - lived with her mother and three sisters in a small house she had rented." Dawn. Raza made news because she represented Pakistan in hockey and was trying to enter Europe illegally to earn money for her invalid son. One year back a family from Gujarat froze to death in Canada while trying to enter the US illegally. "Canadian police found the four of them - Vaishalben, 37, Jagdish, 39, their daughter, Vihangi, 11 and son. Dharmik, 3 - lying together, frozen, in an empty field on 19 January. They had died 12 meters from the US border." BBC. In November 2022, Brijkumar Yadav, 36, from Gandhinagar in Gujarat "fell to his death while climbing the 30-meter-tall metal wall on the Mexico-US border, also known as the Trump wall. Reports stated that he was carrying his son while scaling the wall. His son and wife also fell, but are reported to have survived." DH. Why are Gujaratis so desperate to escape to the US when, "We are marking Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav and have entered into Amrit Kaal, the 25-year-long lead up to India@100," said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the 2022 budget. The Quint. 'Amrit' means the 'nectar of eternal life' and 'kaal' means an 'epoch'. "According to the UN's refugee agency, over 82,000 Indians had sought asylum around the world in 2022 - up sharply (and progressively increasing) from about 12,000 in 2013." DH. "After 1971 (independence of Bangladesh, wikipedia), the four provinces of West Pakistan became a residual Pakistan, but with two separate nations," - "The higher strata enjoy the benefits of five-star roti, designer kapra (clothes) and makan (house) (usually abroad), while the lower strata wait still for Bhutto's successors to redeem his promise." Dawn. Oxfam's "report on inequality in India...finds that just 5 percent of Indians own more than 60 percent of the country's wealth, while the bottom 50 percent of the population possess only 3 percent of the wealth." TIE. As of January 2023, India has 166 dollar billionaires, third behind the US and China, wikipedia. "Regarded as a primary natural resource by Jews inside and outside Israel it is an obsession for parents who, spoon by spoon, zealously ladle knowledge into their children," wrote physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy. "There are lessons here for Pakistan." "India has nearly 1.2 lakh (120,000) schools with just one teacher each." TOI. So, "Indian students going abroad for higher education recorded a six-year high in 2022 at 750,365, according to the education ministry data." HT. Leaving behind the partially literate. "I think Pakistan's future is largely determined by Pakistan's actions and by Pakistan's choices," said India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. India Today. Pakistan was born on the same day as India. We are, therefore, twins. Dissimilar certainly, but why tempt fate?