Because of proximity and welcoming arms of their fellow Punjabis. Plus a lot of them had roots in West Punjab. Lastly, there was genocide being committed against them by Sikhs and they had no choice but to escape.
Not excusing non-punjabi Muslims, but it was a more arduous and longer distance migration for them. Most didn't have any roots in Pakistan, except Pukhtuns to an extent and a large number of whom did make it across like my family.
That is true for the Punjab migration I will not discount that.
I lost 1/3 of my family during that period as well. But it was a necessary sacrifice to make, just like Kashmiri's were told to disarm by their Hindu king, I'm positively sure they'd disarm any other Muslims on the sub-continent and we'd been rendered as sheep's in one's own nation. Hindu police, militia's and military units were being armed even before partition and other units were basically being left without any real force projection. Jinnah saw through the filth of those Indian's.
Those who say we shouldn't have split and we would've been better positioned. Looking at population figures between Pakistan, Bangladesh and India it's a total of 600M while the Hindus' alone are close to 1.1B add another 30M for Sikh. You would have been out numbered regardless and spread out on that vast territory and picked of one by one.
Pakistan was a necessity in the end.
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