Why did Mohammed Ali Jinnah want the separate state of Pakistan?
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He was afraid that with a Hindu majority in India the Muslim minority would have very little power or influence.
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Here's a link to the CIA World Factbook enty on Pakistan. Have a ball!\n\nDon't expect someone else to do your homework for you.
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Why not let Kashmir be indepentant ?
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North korea and china are danger for usa so usa wants a strong support in that region against them.\nIndia is the only country who is able to be a superpower.\nUSA now is no more interested in pakistan. Pakistan is not supporting usa now any more.\nSo according to the changed conditions, USA sees their benefit in the alignment with india only.
1003123
no but pakistan and india were one nation in the past and the british led to their division which was very depressing and awful as their were massacres all around as people of hindu and muslim religion were just running towards the indian and pakistani parts (now) respectively.
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Hi, this is ADi from india. I am telling you this kust to confirm you that I will not be biased toward my answer. kashmir is a part of India. No here is your answer:\n\nIndia before its independence was divided into so many independent parts on which different ruler were ruling. British force fought with these kings one after another and kept winning untill they covered all of them. British ruled over india for more then acentury. Now Indians started fighting for independence so at the time of independence Indian freedom fighter asked all the rulers of different parts to come under one umbrella which is india. So most of the king came under and made India. British made two major part of the country one India and another pakistan. kashmir king was undecided on which part to join at the time of Indian independence, Indians never forced him to join them, but pakinstanis at that time out of deparateness attacked kashmir king and wants him to join the pakistan forcefully, at this notion the king of kashmir asked to indians for help and indian fought with pakistanis and defeated them, after that kashmir king announed to join India. This defeat made pakistanis very shamed buy they attacked thrice on it in last 50 years and each time faced defeat, so now they play a proxy war by sending militants to kashmir. This is a pain truth nothing is added into it, you can check the history.\n\nADi.
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pakistan is near to get the status of failed state, no democracy, no economical growth, poor living conditions, and a new addition to all that is terrorism.\n\ni hope pakistan could survive all those problmes. i would love to see pakistan as a developed state.
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To say that Kasmir belongs to India is untrue, even the UN resolution passed wayback says that let the Kashmiri people decide who they want to join.\n\nDuring the seperation process in 1947 Kashmiri people voted to join Pakistan as being Muslim Majority but the Raja at that time sold it to India and that's why Pakistan had to use force to free Kashmir. India controls about 45%, Pakistan around 38% and China around 17% of Kashmir Land.
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They were together at one point but because of religious differences (India is Hindu and Pakistan is Muslim mainly) they were split (actually Afghanistan was also part of the country).  It was under British control.  When Britain removed themselves it was put into 3 separate countries.  Yes Kashmir is a disputed area between them and will always be.  I think it is both of their Achilles heel in moving up from 3rd world countries.
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Do you really think that they have to ask permission to the Americans? I think they too have the right to make their own political alliances.\n___\n\n"Many experts predict the new closeness between the world's only superpower and Islamabad's fiercest rival will prompt Pakistan to develop even closer ties with its longtime strategic security partner, China.\n\nPakistan needs a deterrent against India.\n\nThe animosity between the two countries dates to partition in August 1947, when the British divided their former colony into two states. India was meant to be a secular democracy and Pakistan, a homeland for South Asian Muslims. More than six million Muslims migrated to Pakistan, and more than four million Hindus and Sikhs moved to India. Tremendous violence and upheaval during the partition process left more than one million people dead.\nIn the half-century since, Pakistan and India have fought three wars and come close a few other times. The unresolved issue of the disputed territory of Kashmir and periodic military buildups on both sides have kept tensions high. Many Pakistanis still worry that India wants to reunite the territory under its control. Both countries tested nuclear weapons in 1998".\n\nQuoted from: \nChina and Pakistan: A Deepening Bond\nAuthor:Esther Pan\nMarch 8, 2006\nhttp://www.cfr.org/publication/10070/china_and_pakistan.html
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I hope not. The people of Baluchistan deserve tehir autonomy and are being exploited by Pakistan for their natural resources. Anyway they are very fierce fighters and the Pakistani army would have its work cut out.
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I don't think Pakistan wants that.
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Well it is their leadership which has not said openly that they want a free homeland the leadership has always tried to be either on the Indian or Pakistani side. Once they decide they want freedom that is the Kashmiris no one could stop them.
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He is the president of Pakistan.
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Pakistan is Cat on the wall..\nIt has a desire to develop its country to hi fi with the help of US \nBut also need to manage those old islam culture and big shots of some groups who operating most Madderassas..\nAnd most maderassas already became a b-school for some terror organisations...\n\nWith this kind of people, its very difficult to grow..\nEither follow US or your own Maderassas..\n\nBut i pity about people of pakistan..\nthey r the people suffering economically with each decision of the dictatorship..\n\nif they can reduce the tension in indian border areas by controlling terror groups.. they can save a lump sum on defence expenses and can use it for development purposes...\n\nbut certainly Pakistan is not a terrorist country..\n\nA country which is not able to pick among choices...
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Imperial India was divided into the modern states of India and Pakistan.
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Considering Pakistan was part of India until the U.K. dismantled India into two countries before it left. I side with India. Same thing as in Palestine. The Israelis have an inch and want a yard.