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Hinduguy
Spot on. I find myself agreeing with a Indian.
Zabaniya
I may have reacted a tad harshly, I have Bengali friends here. But let us call a spade a spade. Why do we have to look at things through rose tinted glasses. The truth is there is no nation on earth where two such disseparate peoples living in two equal population wings 1,200 miles apart. Having a hostile medium India just about finishes of the perverse formula.
The only connect we had was we were Muslim. Well if that was indeed a glue than every Muslim country from Marocco to Indonesia would be one nation. In fact why do have have a Durand line on the western Pakistani border? Afghanistan and even Tajikistan should be one block. On both sides of Durand line the same Pashtun live. Dhaka is nearly 1,200 miles from Islamabad. Kabul is 200 and Dushanbe in Tajikistan is 400 miles. Hint: Religion alone cannot glue people togather, it can be one strand but it needs motre than one strand to bind a nation. 1971 proved that.
Todays Pakistan is cohesive, compact, almost all within the Indus Valley and has shared history and association going over centuries. Even than we are having problems.
If you read the Lahore Declaration it refers to 'states' as in plural thus suggesting more than one country for Muslims. Even Allama Iqbal's speach only included the provinces in north west sub continent as Pakistan.
"I would like to see the
Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and Baluschistan amalgamated into a single state. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated
North-West Indian Muslim state appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of
North West India”.
Some Ignored Facts About The Allahabad
The tragedy was power crazy members of ML managed to steamroll East Bengal into Pakistan and you know very soon after 1947 trouble started with language riots etc. Finally Mujib tapped a widespread sentiment of the Bengali's. Had he been alone he would have not got anywhere.
The disaster was that our leaders should have seen the writing on the wall and agreed on a mutual divorce. Instead you know what happened. Thee are many versions but you know horrible things were done by both sides leading to the biggest humilation which even now haunts us. only a few days ago in these very forums a Indian member was posting picture of Gen. A.K Niazi surrendering to Gen Aurora and taunting us.
Of course today we should get along but let us not get carried away on some romantic caravan. Cup only break once.
Peace.