Not three years ago India and Pakistan were within hours of nuking each other. Islam has survived, unwanted, in India for hundreds of years, and Hindus and Muslims have been slaughtering each other for hundreds of years over it. Pakistan and Bangladesh exists because the Hindus drove the Muslims out of the Raj in 1948. Kashmir is claimed by both countries, and just to make things more exciting, the Sikhs want independence from both because they seem to believe they are better than the rest of India. A pox on all the houses...
East & West Pakistan were formed because of the Muslim league's demands for a separate Muslim state,not because Hindus drove Muslims out.If that was so,explain how 138 million Muslims live in India & are in far better shape than their cousins in Pakistan??& Pakistan & India were independent in 1947 & not 1948.The birth of Bangladesh in 1971 was itself a sign of the futility of Pakistan's Muslim identity-East Pakistan gave way to Bangladesh due to the action of the Indian army.Sikhs are a microscopic minority in Pakistan with no rights or privileges.A section of Sikhs & not the whole community wanted independence from India in the 80s(who were supported by Pakistan).Since then,most Sikhs are happy to be in Punjab state in India & around 4 democratic elections have been held in that state since,which is now the richest in India.The Indian prime minister is a Sikh & so is the new army chief designate.
In short,read up on the history of the subcontinent-ur knowledge on it is too stereotyped
Actually, the demand for a separate Muslim homeland was first raised by the Muslim League. The Hindu-dominated Indian National Congress was against any sort of separation. They agreed to it only after it became apparent that without separation there would be no independence.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
One of many foreign policy successes by the Bush Administration that is rarely if ever mentioned. I imagine Sec. Powell had some long, anxious nights back then.