Recent articles on partition of the subcontinent have been interesting. To discuss merits and demerits of the partition now after 65 years of reality are only of academic interest. Pakistan and Bangladesh being smaller nations to govern should have done better economically than much diverse and bigger India.
The partition should have been taken by Pakistan as devolution of powers to other distinctly different religious-based societies, and easier to govern, instead civil wars and massive bloodshed followed which further partitioned West and East Pakistan into Pakistan and Bangladesh. Now Pakistan instead of being a beckon of Muslims all over the world is battling all sorts of secessionist, militant and anarchist forces all over the nation.
While successive Indian leaderships strived to strengthen secularism, Pakistan was overcome with xenophobia, fundamentalism, and militancy due to frustrations arising from poor governance, nepotism and rampant corruption.
The theocracy basis of Pakistan has completely failed and the country has degenerated into ethnic and sectarian strife, resulting in regular indiscriminate bombing and target killings. Many Pakistani politicians use religion to arouse public support, by invoking so-called external threats, which distract public from otherwise their own abject failures. The contemporary ethos of Hindu majority India has shown to be more of democracy, pluralism and general tolerance than of majority Muslim Pakistan. — Seif A. Somalya, Jeddah
Don’t blame it on partition (2)
