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  • The War That Made India a Great Power (and Destroyed Pakistan)

    12/17/2016 11:05:12 AM PST · by BobL · 30 replies
    National Interest Magazine ^ | Dec. 16, 2016 | Michael Peck
    This is what happens when you chop a nation in half. Before December 3, 1971, Pakistan was a country suffering from a split personality disorder. When British India became independent in 1947, the country was divided into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. The problem was that East Pakistan and West Pakistan were almost a thousand miles apart, and wedged in between them was archenemy India. Imagine if the United States only consisted of the East Coast and West Coast, and Russia controlled all of North America in between. Thirteen days later, Pakistan had been amputated. Indian troops had conquered East...