Pakistan was created in the Muslim majority areas and not for all Muslims of India......
.....Pakistan's ancient Civilizations are Mehrghar, Gandhara and Indus valley civilizations. While Indian culture mostly has developed in the Indo gangetic plain.
.....Ardeshir Cowasjee is a traitor!....We Pakistanis from different from Indians......We Punjabis, Sindhis, Balochis, Pathans, Kashmiris, Gilgitis have nothing to do with you Tamils, Malayalis, Rajasthanis, Gujaratis, Biharis, Bengalis, Asssamese, Oriya!.......I disagree with Allama Iqbal on the part that Pakistan is Northwest India. PAKISTAN IS NOW PART OF CENTRAL ASIA. Allama Iqbal was only using terminology used by the Imperialists, what else?.....
I am glad the old hag india was cut into pieces, independence was the best thing that could have happened, we are glad we don't have to look at indians every day.
....Why cant we accept the fact that we are two different people, from two different countries which happen to exist in the same geographical region. I dont even want to be called a South Asian, because I am only a Pakistani.....
Don't worry, Pakistan will never unite with India........We need Pakistanize our country. Sindh needs to be renamed "Sindistan" and our Punjab "Punjabistan."......
As evidenced by the comments above, there are just too many mutually incongruent views on why Pakistan was created and why it continues to exist as a Soverign State.
I think all of us as Pakistanis need to work out a common foundational story. I just wish that we could find some consensus that would be agreeable to >2/3rd of Pakistanis. Once such a common narrative is in place, I feel a lot of our factionalistic problems will slowly start to disappear and everybody will begin to feel more "Pakistani".....
What is the Foundational Narrative for Pakistan?
The way I see it, there are a few leading contenders amongst the numerous theories that seem to be floating about on the issue of what Pakistan is supposed to be. So here they are:
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1) Choudhary Rahmat Ali: The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) Theory.
Pakistan in an Indus-based Civilization, while (North) India is a Ganges-based Civilization. These two civilizations are as different & distinct as Nile-based Egypt versus Mekong-based ASEAN.
Choudhry Rahmat Ali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What are the objections to this theory?
The presence of the 16 million Muhajirs from the Gangetic-Plains. They are not Indus-Valley people and are civilizationally Indian and not Pakistani. One way to correct this flaw is by deporting all the 15-million Muhajirs back to their civilizational homeland in the Gangetic-Plains.
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2) Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah: The Two-Nation Theory (TNT).
Pakistan is a separate homeland for "the Muslims of India".
Two-Nation Theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What are the objections to this theory?
(a) The presence of the 200 million Muslims in India who do not have the right to immigrate to the "homeland for the Muslims of India". One way to make this theory whole is by giving all the 200 million Muslims of India the unconditional, undeniable and immediate right to immigrate into Pakistan so that they can also live their lives under the Nur-of-Islam.
(b) The Bengalis divorced us and walked away. The way to overcome this point is to argue that the Bengalis were included by mistake in the first place because of a typographical error. What did we expect? The Quaid once said, "What is this Muslim League? It is just me and my typewriter". Given the overwhelming workload, a typographical error was only to be expected. Another way is to convert the Two-Nation Theory into a Three-Nation Theory in order to resolve this anomaly.
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3) Allama Muhammad Iqbal: The Global Muslim Ummah (GMU) Theory.
Nationalism is Kufr; "Pakistan" is merely the revolutionary seed from which the new Global Khilafah will emerge to unite all 1.5 billions Muslims of the World of under the banner of Islam. Ghazwa-e-Hind may follow, but only if we remember to set the alarm and get up on time tomorrow morning.
Chin O arab hamara hindustaN hamara
« Urdu Ghazals
Muhammad Iqbal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What are the objections to this theory?
The fact that people in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE etcetera treat us like dirt because we are not Arab. One way to make this theory whole is by sending out our brave army to conquer Arabia, subdue their arrogance and sieze control of the Two Holy Places and all their oil. Kiyani could then claim the Mantle of the Khalifah and so establish Iqbal's cherished egalitarion Khilafah without the Arab v/s non-Arab racism, the Quraish v/s Non-Quraish tribalism and the Sayyid v/s non-Sayyid casteism.
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4) Some Other Theory:
Insert your own theory here....If people post their own theories, we can use the "thanks" count to see which ones are popular and then add them here.
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What are your thoughts?
Especially MadDog, PakShah, Ticker, Rafi ? Which theory do you prefer, and why? What do you think are the pros and cons of each of the listed popular theories? Do you have another theory in mind? What are the justifications for your theory? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
PS: From my experience and observations--
(1) Many Punjabis & Sindhis like the IVC theory. The Muhajirs hate it. The Pathans & Baloch don't think much about it.
(2) Most Muhajirs like the TNT, although they do not accept that Pakistan was created "
only" for the Muslims of the Muslim-majority provinces and insist it was created for
all Muslims of India. Many Punjabis, Sindhis & Baloch hate this theory.
(3) Many radicalized Pashtuns and Punjabis support the GMU theory and dream of a Global Khilafah. However, there is not much support for this amongst the Baloch & Sindhis.