Ganapati,...Very very brilliant approach. Strong majority of us including Pakistanis do not know or realize it. Pakistan came in being in 1947,a part of scattered and shattered Indian sub-continent.Whatsoever it were Indians who had been given a new name Pakistan known to very few people,a stranger inside his own house.That is where frustration and problem of common Pakistani started.It was an identity crisis.They were Indians,looked like Indians and lived like Indians did,BUT DID NOT WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED WITH INDIANS.
SO,WHAT DID THEY HAVE IN HAND WHICH DID NOT IDENTIFY THEM WITH INDIANS ? ANSWER IS "MUSLIM".
In fact,it is after 9/11 when common people including educated ones in the world started knowing of existence of a state known as Pakistan.But unfortunately it is popularily known to them as terrorist state and likened to Afghanistan not India.
Even Benazir Bhutto in her book 'Daughter of the East' written in 70s/80s has mentioned of it.She has said that her classmates in US university did not know of a nation or place known as Pakistan.People in world knew India only which hurts Pakistani sentiments leaving them with no option but to use "muslim" as their identity.
