I read with great interest the two articles "Pakistan Resolution - Revisited" by F.U. Ahmad and "Pakistan Movement based on Islamic ideology" by Professor Dr M. Yakub Mughal which appeared in your 23rd March special edition.
F.U. Ahmad says, religion was not made a factor in the demand for Pakistan and he quotes from the Lahore Resolution of 23rd March 1940 and the Quaid-e-Azam's address of 11th August 1947.
Professor Mughal says, Pakistan was created on the basis of Islamic ideology. I have a few questions and request the elders, who took part in the Pakistan Movement and deserve to be called the Builders of Pakistan, to answer them, based on their eyewitness impressions.
1. Where do the Muslims of India, who numbered 40 million in 1947 and 140 million now, fit in a Muslim Pakistan and a Hindu India?
2. If religion and Islamic ideology was the basis of Pakistan, why could not the same religion hold East and West Pakistan together, after 1971?
3. Why did not the Eastern wing, which attained independence in 1947 along with the Western side, after the emergence of Bangladesh call their state a Muslim State or the Islamic State of Bangladesh?