Both ex-british colonies, one Islamic, one not. Which one is the more successful?

You and skinbad bring up an interesting point. Pakistanis, and even some Indians, are fond of waxing eloquent on how the British messed up South Asia. But it reminds me a bit of the sketch in The Life of Brian where someone asks (rhetorically), “What have the Romans done for us?” (”Us” being the Israelites.) After some discussion, the question becomes: “All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”

Although the Brits may have messed some stuff up (but, honestly, what imperial power hasn’t?), some people don’t give them credit where it’s due.

I think one reason Pakistan is in such a horrid condition whereas India is rising is because India was established as a secular state and on the remains of a polity that at some point or another existed as a historical fact for centuries, if not millennia, whereas Pakistan was established on the basis of religion and as an artificial construct with nothing historical, ethnic, cultural, et cetera, to serve as a foundation.