[AnotherUnixGeek]

India Pakistan seems to be doing okay lately.

The author of the article is 100% right. The carve-out of Pakistan has done nothing positive for the world or for the people who live in what are now India and Pakistan.

You could make a very sound case that if Pakistan had never been created, several wars could have been avoided, including our involvement in both Afghanistan and Iraq over the last two decades. Thousands of people who died in Pakistan, India in their wars and thousands who died in the US in the 9/11 attacks would most likely be alive today. North Korea and Iran would not have nuclear weapons, since Pakistan was their source for nuclear secrets. I'm sure I'm missing some other things.

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Without partition, there would have been a civil war, and a form of Pakistan would have emerged anyway.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

You could make a very sound case that if Pakistan had never been created, several wars could have been avoided

The problem is that the Hindus didn't want to live under a caliph and muslims didn't want to live under Hindu rule. The Brits knew this better than anyone else. They had run the place for 130 years.