[Smokin' Joe]

From a larger perspective, perhaps having British cartographers define country boundaries wasn't the way to go.

That partition has kept tribal/religious factions within national boundaries at each others' throats for some time--which may well have been the intent.

[Dilbert56]

That partition has kept tribal/religious factions within national boundaries at each others' throats for some time--which may well have been the intent.

Good point. Yet, even if the sects had their own countries, they would fight over the boundaries instead of within them.