Separated by wall raised solely on basis of religion

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Watt laga di Dada Ji!" This was a tweet from well-known YouTuber and journalist of Pakistani origin Arju Kazmi..

Muhammad Ali Jinnah said in Lahore in March 1940 that the British, who up until yesterday did not pay close attention to what we had to convey, are now beginning to take Pakistans demand seriously"..

Ishtiaq Ahmed, a Swedish historian of Pakistani descent who has authored credible volumes on Jinnah and the partition of India, has written extensively on this subject..

According to Ahmed, the report of Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat who drew the blueprint for Indias partition, had been presented , but London was in a dilemma..

The army there has dreamed of Ghazwa-e-Hind (a prophecy in some hadiths where an Islamic army invades and conquers the Indian subcontinent, as part of events leading to the eventual apocalypse) since the time of Gen. Ayub Khan..

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