Good summarization, SC
There are a lot of queer things hidden in those statements
1. the most prominent Muslim leader who led the partition, who wanted a ‘homeland for Muslims’ and who was the first leader of Pakistan - Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He was a pork-eating, smoking, drinking non-believer.
Jinnah married a Zoroastrian (Parsi) woman and there is no indication the believed in Islam at all. He wanted a state that gave its minorities freedom (brilliant plan....)
2. The Bengalis were mistreated by West Pakistanis - putting the lie that religion alone can be a common factor
3. Pakistan no longer has a raison d’etre. It was planned as a home for the subcontinent’s Muslims - but 50% elected to stay back. Then the Bengalis broke away (after the West Paki muslims committed genocide there) and now what is Pakistan? it’s not the land of the subcontinent’s muslims. It is nothing
And Pakistan has, uh, restive ethnic minorities and various jihadist groups — it’s basically a pseudostate.
Hindus and Muslims would be at each other's throats even more than they are, if there weren't a country for (non-Bengali) Muslims.
Partition was a disaster for the country 70 years ago, but there were Muslims who didn't want to live under Hindu rule and Hindus who wanted fewer Muslims around, so it happened.
Those feelings persist and so does Pakistan.
It's the world's only muslim nuclear power. That's something. I guess.