Pakistan Lost - Episode 1 - The Lahore Resolution vs The Pakistan Resolution debate
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The Myth of the Pakistani Identity
The Radcliffe Award is the perfect embodiment of this idea. A white man was known in from England and given five weeks to draw borders dividing up 570 million people. I mean, the fact that Pharoah's poor is in India and not Pakistan is not the natural creation of a nation at birth. There's nothing natural about a border. They're created. They're formulated around certain myths, certain ideas and a populace is forced to collate around those myths. And it is with this myth making that Pakistan has struggled the most. The vanguards of this identity are quick to label people traitors who they don't see falling into this vague category. But even they have never been
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