But a questions to Pak members ,
How big a role had extremism played in holding pak back? To what I heard Pak wasnt doing too bad , before all this Jihad in Afghanistan started... Why did not ONE muslim country progressed (exept liberal Turkey) on teh lines of European countries , exept those Oil-kings [no sence of direction,utter cowards, racists towards weaker economies and kaffirs], and many liberal countries progressed??????
Sadly amazing but true.
I want pakistanis POV on this issue.
Extremism played a big role in pushing Pakistan back.. but moreover the support of extremism by the establishment has undone the social fabric of Pakistan.
This is due to the identity crises faced by Pakistani's after Partition.
India remained India.. sure.. its boundaries changed a bit, but for the most part.. its still the same.
Pakistan however, was an entirely new entity which combined the areas of India which the Brit Raj had treated differently from the start. Instead of accepting the language differences and concentrating on secular lines as it should have been, Islam was used as the tool to unite. This is not to be confused with the need for Muslim unity but rather the use of Islam to suppress any national earnings rather than accommodating them amicably. The result was the separation of Bangladesh... and now the issues in Baluchistan and to an extent Sindh where politicians are able to use the Sindhi card with ease.
The establishment in its effort to strengthen the state and not the peoples used pan-Islamic ideology.
It was not as successful as hoped. Also, the attempt to use this pan-Islamic ideology to combat India has also backfired and the result are the mindless hooligans that roam the streets of Pakistan in guise.
This also reflects on the identity claim..
As I stated earlier..India is STILL India. Not much changed.(although there are attempts to ignore the heritage of Muslim rule in India by vested interests).
Pakistan is the new entity and therefore requires an identity, it does find inherent ones in the long spanning Muslim rule. But that is not enough as more Muslim rulers of India were secular in their governance than not. This is where the "over arabization" comes in, in a search for identity it is assumed that more and more cultural adaptation of Arabic(not Muslim) trends must be undertaken to forge an identity that separates Pakistani Muslims from those in India.
Although the fact is that those Muslims that existed in Pakistan and those that migrated from India had a very distinct Culture and identity from the rest of the Muslim world, yet they were fairly good practicing Muslims that adhered to the core of Islam.
In a nutshell about the Topic's "question"
Does the State of Pakistan have claim over any identity of India it chooses? NO
Do the People of Pakistan have claim over any identity of India they choose? YES
