aazidane, you are going off topic. Jinnah represented the Muslim leadership of Western provinces and East Bengal. East Bengal Muslim leadership wanted Pakistan as much as Western provinces leadership, Jinnah was the visible figurehead who decided to take up the cause. Jinnah was in Congress for 2 decades working with Gandhi trying to achieve Hindu Muslim unity. Only after the intransigence of Hindu leadership, he got tired and left for London. Later he came back to take up Muslim League leadership.
Muslims were 25% of British India population, they could not foresee that they would have 40% or even become majority if they waited long enough. So we cannot blame these people for thinking and taking decisions the way they did. They had a reality which is hard for us to imagine.
Jinnah also started to recruit Bengali's in Pakistan Army, I think if he was alive for another 10-15 years, Pakistan would not break.
About Urdu, Western wing accepted this language which is not their mother tongue, why we could not? What is so special about Bengali? Now West Bengali's are fluent in Hindi, which is very similar to Urdu, so they can assimilate better with other parts of India.
Fact is we, East Bengal Muslims, separated from British India using two nation theory and then we took up Bengali nationalism to separate from Western wing. We should never have adopted Bengali nationalism, that was a betrayal to the original cause of partition, the two nation theory. India engineered this betrayal using its agent.
I personally believe that partition was a mistake and breaking of Pakistan in 1971 was inevitable, due to distance and the great Hindutva master strategists sitting in the middle, creating RAWamy traitor agents to push their agenda. But why bring all this up.
We have to analyze history to understand the geopolitical mistakes we made, so we can avoid similar mistakes in the future. But this is not the thread to discuss this. Please create another thread or choose one of the existing threads on these issues to discuss this.