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Now expecting this year's annual NASA Diwali picture to show more lights in Pakistan than India because BJP did not win. — Subhasish Das (@bhuto) November 8, 2015

Crackers? Pakistan would care if any of this was about cricket. Otherwise a #Bihar loss or win for BJP is more imp to India than anyone else &'mdash; SenatorSherryRehman (@sherryrehman) November 8, 2015

Ruling #BJP has conceded defeat in #Bihar. Some in Pakistan need to learn a bit from India on accepting electoral verdicts¬ cry 'rigging' — Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) November 8, 2015

NEW DELHI: Social media is bringing the world closer and it was evident on Sunday. While Bihar and Pakistan have nothing in common, the Indian state was trending heavily across the border.At the time of filing this report, '#Bihar' was the No. 2 trending topic in Pakistan. For most parts of the day, the Indian state - where assembly election results were declared on Sunday - was in the top-five and was at No.1 spot for brief moments as well. Little surprise then that most users on social media chose to point it out and see the lighter side of it. "Sorry, it's all the smoke from the crackers in Pakistan," tweeted former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah. It was an indirect jibe at BJP president Amit Shah.Shah, in an election speech, had said that if BJP lost in Bihar, there would be fireworks in Pakistan. "If by any mistake BJP loses, victory and defeat may be in Bihar but fire crackers will go off in Pakistan," he had said. The BJP-led alliance eventually lost the polls to Nitish-Lalu partnership.Interestingly, Lalu Prasad did create a fan-base of sorts in Pakistan when he had visited the country in 2003. At the time, several Pakistani newspapers had called him 'Bihar ka Badshah' and the politician himself had called for peace between the south-Asian neighbours. "I know people laugh at me and I enjoy that," Lalu, part of a two-day an Indian delegation taking part in a two-day conference of parliamentarians, experts and journalists organised by the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), had said here. "But that's the power of democracy and it's the power of vote that has made me so powerful."Little wonder then that the same democracy and 'power of votes' has once again helped the state of Bihar emerge as a popular topic of discussion online - not just in India but in neighbouring Pakistan as well.