Nationalism is not a static entity. It morphs and evolves over time. We are talking about a distance of
Allahu Akbar to
Pakistan Zindabad.
All India Muslim League (AIML) demanded many homelands for the Muslims of South Asia: Osmanistan, Siddiqistan, Faruqistan, Haideristan, Muinistan, Maplistan, Safistan, Nasaristan, etc. And of course, PAKSTAN — home of the
Millat that existed in the
Indus region since
The Dawn of History.
Again, where is Bangladesh?
Now I doubt your Pakistan Studies book says much about Ch. Rahmat Ali so I urgue you to take the time to read his views on
Pakstan and
Bangistan union:
INTEGRATION OF PASTAN AND BANGISTAN INTO ONE COUNTRY
The integration of West Pakistan (Pastan) and East Bengal (Bangistan) has its advantages, but the losses far outweigh the gains. The danger of integration is so deceptive that it actually looks like deliverance, and is, therefore, all the more deadly.
Five elements in this relationship argue against the integration:
(a) At least 1,000 miles by air and 3,000 miles by sea separate the two wings. There have been in history, and still are, empires with far-flung colonies and dominions, but never a country with one half of its territory lying so far from the other. The iron laws of life show that to integrate into one country two such territories is so unsound and unsafe as to defeat the very purpose of their integration.
(b) Neither the shortest nor the longest route between the two wings runs through air or over land and seas that could be called neutral, let alone safe. Every inch of it runs through the Hindu-ruled air or territory, or over the Hindu-dominated seas. If an enemy invades any wing, though both will be automatically at war with him, yet they will not be able to co-ordinate their defence and give any effective aid to one another.
(c) The national capital of Bangistan is in Pastan, and for a country to have its national capital outside its own confines is dangerous both to itself and to its partner in whose territory that capital lies. The very fact of its supreme Government being outside its frontiers creates among its people the humiliating and subservient feeling that they are a colony of that other country.
(d) In spite of a community of religion between the two wings, there is not that complete identification of each with the other which is vital to their existence as one country. Their outlook, interests and economics, which ultimately determine the course of life of a people, are radically different, and this difference always leads to the rise of centrifugal forces.
(e) THE ULTIMATE DESTINIES OF PASTAN AND BANGISTAN LIE IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
Geography and history dictate that Bangistan turns towards the neighbouring Muslim countries to the north-east and Pastan towards those in the north-west. To ignore this dictate is to court disaster.
There are other elements of danger in the integration, but to refer to them here would be against the interests of the nation. The only way to meet this source of danger is to RECOGNIZE "PASTAN" AND "BANGISTAN" AS TWO SEPARATE DISTINCT COUNTRIES, EACH WITH A SUPREME GOVERNMENT OF ITS OWN, and, when that is done, to REUNITE THEM AS ALLIES by a comprehensive treaty on the basis of perfect equality. Such an alliance could secure all the advantages and, at the same time, eliminate all the disadvantages, of their present integration.
Source: Pakistan or Pastan? Destiny or Disintegration? (Published: 28 Jan, 1950)
Indeed.
And this too enraged Ch. Rehmat Ali who envisioned seperate but
indigenous homelands for Muslims of South Asia as evidenced by the map he created. Again, Ch. Rehmat Ali was proven right because migration turned out to be a bloodbath.
Denialism.
Dear boy, we have been through this exercise before.
PAKSTAN is a geographic entity. It comprises of
Punjab,
Azad Kashmir,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
Sindh, and Balochi
stan, Gilgit-Balti
stan. This is Pakistan Studies 101.
For the 4th time, can you kindly provide sources for your lofty claims?
Again,
Read: A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia by Manan Ahmed Asif
What part of "
all inhabitants of Hind had reverted back" leaves any room for "cannot accurately gauge"?
This is history scribed by the Umayyad historian Aḥmad Ibn Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī in 731 CE. Unless you want to accuse al-Balādhurī of lying without a shred of evidence based entirely on your feelings, I would safely take his word for it.