#5 they might as well just be part of India
They could be what Jinnah wanted, a secular state FOR muslims, who in India have a distinct cultural history and identity from Hindus. Just as Ben Gurion envisioned Israel as a SECULAR state FOR Jews.
Has worked out less well in Pakland than in Israel (not that its worked perfectly in Israel, mind you) Possible reasons 1. The nature of Islam 2. The nature of Israel as an immigrant state freed it from certain kinds of tribalism Pakland was subject to. 3. The intense poverty and illiteracy of Pakland at independence. 4. Jinnah died shortly after independence, while Ben Gurion had time to set the state on the right path. 5. Pick the right enemies. Contests with Arabs gave the state of Israel reinforcing successes, while contests with India left Pakland with failures, which led to a turn away from secularism, which led to MORE failures, and MORE Islamism, in a downward cycle (till 9/11, and its been pretty touch and go since then) |
President Pervez Musharraf on Monday condemned fighting between Shiite and Sunni Muslims that left 14 people dead, and said he was trying to make Pakistan a moderate Islamic state and not one controlled by terrorists. His comments came after gunmen on Saturday attacked a car carrying Shiite leader Agha Ziauddin, wounding him. But one of his bodyguards and one of the assailants was killed in an exchange of fire. Angry supporters of Ziauddin then went on a rampage, setting buildings on fire and clashing with rival Sunni Muslims in Gilgit, about 250 kilometres north of the capital. The violence left some 14 people dead.