"The damning argument against Pakistan is that it took a community spread through out the subcontinent, chopped it into several communities, gave it first one country and then two and left the others dangling in mid-air. People, who once possessed the culture, customs and history of a whole subcontinent were left with neither a nation nor an idea of themselves as a community. Pakistan was a double disaster for the Muslims in India: first they lost their sense of coherence and political strength in the Indian union along with their leadership and middle classes which migrated to Pakistan by the thousands; secondly, they were forever damned in India for having voted for Pakistan and broken the unity of India."
~ Akbar Ahmed (Pakistan's former High Cornmissioner to the United Kingdom)
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