Pakistan's Failure

In part 3 of his series on Pakistan, Kapil Komireddi advances an important point: India was partitioned because Muslim leaders insisted their people could not safely live in a state with a 75% non-Muslim majority. But the post-1948 emergence of India as a secular democracy debunked the argument for Pakistan.

In part 3 of his series on Pakistan, Kapil Komireddi advances an important point: India was partitioned because Muslim leaders insisted their people could not safely live in a state with a 75% non-Muslim majority.

But the post-1948 emergence of India as a secular democracy debunked the argument for Pakistan. Partitioned India has a 10% Muslim minority who enjoy more personal and political freedom,  greater personal security, and increasingly more prosperity, than the Muslims of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Pakistan could succeed only if India failed - and India did not fail.

Read Kapil's next installment here.