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PAKISTAN
In the light of the history of the sub-continent, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali
Jinnah,the great Muslim leader and founder of Pakistan while addressing at
Aligarh put forward a thought provoking question infront of the Muslim
community of India :
"What was the motive of demand for Pakistan and separate electorate
for
the Muslims.
What was the need of the division of India?"
He himself answered:
'' It is neither the narrow-mindedness of the Hindus not the
tacticts of the
British, but is the basic demand of Islam."
India was never a nation nor a country rather a sub-continent of different
nationalities having their own distinctive culture and civilization,language and
literature,art and architecture,names and nomenclature,sense of values and
proportion,legal laws and moral codes,customs and calenders,history and
traditon, and aptitude and ambitions.In short,Muslims and Hindus had their
own outlook on life and of life based on very conflicting ideas and
conceptions.To base a constitution on the conception of homogenous India
was indeed to prepare her for civil war.
There was number of events which forced the Indian Muslims towards the
demand of a separate homeland for the Muslims. The Muslims of subcontinent have a very strange history. Having ruled the subcontinent for
thousand years only to be outhrowned by outsiders, the Biritish and having
lost so easily the War of Independence in 1857, Muslims were punished and
humiliated .The loss of life and property was great and the betrayal by Hindus
caused greater hardship.There is no denying the fact that the situation of the
gloomy plight of the Muslims in India was aggravated by combined and
severe oppression of the British and Hindus as the Muslims were soley
blamed for the upheaval.
There are long list of happennings which taken place since 1857 till the
demand of a separate homeland for the Muslims out of united India. Initially,
Muslims wanted protection in sub-continent and some of the Muslim leaders
were in favour of Hindu-Muslim unity and Quaid-E-Azam was one of them.
But, by and by, they realized the narrow-mindedness of Hindu leaders and