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You are referring to very old figures and Infact same old figure is being recycles since last 2-3 years but still Punjabis and Muhjairs form more than half of your country's population, do you have any data for rest of them Saraikis, Sindhis, Pashtuns and Baloch who as per my knowledge still live in extreme poverty and backwardness. Most of the times poverty and backwardness is being referred as the main cause of rising extremism in South Punjab among Saraikis, Sindhi nationalism, Baloch insurgency and TTP's insurgency. Punjab was already prosperous due to agricultural boom due to canal system during British rule. India's literacy rate is now 74% from 2011 census while Pakistan will reach 60% literacy target in 2015.
I'm referring to the latest report issued by the UNDP Human Development Report of 2014 - They are neither Pro-Pakistan nor Anti-India to show us in a better light viz a vie India in terms of poverty nor are they Pro-India or Anti-Pakistan to show us a bad light viz a vie India in terms of literacy, both with respect to their previous year findings !
I don't know of any data collected by a credible body either within or with-out Pakistan on ethnic lines so I can't comment on it !
Nor do I know how to gauge rising ethnic nationalism in Pakistan by any barometer that I know of so I can't comment on that either !
Just as I can't comment whether India's internal issues regarding ethnicity are rising or falling !