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and now what is Pakistan? it’s not the land of the subcontinent’s muslims. It is nothing.

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.

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well, yes there were Muslims who didn’t want to be under Hindu rule.

But next to no Hindus wanted Pakistan — they probably didn’t want so many Moslems, but they didn’t want to give away a part of India to the Muslims