shehbaz nisar, could it be that because muslims have four wives therefore four-four fingers point back at them?
Aadi Manav -- what you are saying Nehru had the opportunity to do. But in his infinite wisdom, (read, under the spell of wife of the last Viceroy of India, Edwina Mountbatten) didn't.
Here's a quote from "INDIAN SUMMER The Secret History of the End of an Empire" By Alex von Tunzelmann.
It was the culmination of a lifetime's struggle; and yet, as Nehru later confided to his sister, his mind had not been on the splendid words. A few hours before, he had received a telephone call from Lahore in what was about to become West Pakistan. It was his mother's hometown and a place where he had spent much of his childhood. Now it was being torn apart. Gangs of Muslims and Sikhs had clashed in the streets. The main gurdwara-the Sikh temple-was ablaze. One hundred thousand people were trapped inside the city walls without water or medical assistance. Violence was a much-predicted consequence of the handover, but preparations for dealing with it had been catastrophically inadequate. The only help available in Lahore was from two hundred Gurkhas, stationed nearby, under the command of an inexperienced British captain who was only twenty years old.
