Yea you should have thought of all that when forming a country in that manner, hoping that religion would bind them together. Indians told you it was a ludicrous idea in 1947, but you went ahead. The inevitable end occured.
And how does it matter what the distane from the capital is? California is very far from Washington DC. How did Britain protect the Falkland islands? The country's war planners are supposed to take all that into account and come up with a strategy. Your armymen did not do that. Lost half the country. Ha ha ha.