When Pakistan came into being in 1947, it was envisioned as a state wherein the Muslims of the subcontinent could live together as one united nation, irrespective of caste or colour, and free of the tyranny that the Hindu majority of India would have subjected them to.
Subsequent events in history have gone on to show, however, that the Two-Nation Theory that provided the ideological basis for the partition of the subcontinent was not sufficient to bind the people of Pakistan together in the face of the tremendous influence wielded by such primordial identities as ethnicity and caste. Indeed, in its fifty years, Pakistani society and national integration have been repeatedly challenged by the forces of ethno-nationalism and separatism, for
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