In the aftermath of partition, the matter of what language Pakistan would adopt as its lingua franca gathered increasing importance. ![]() In the second, of course, came the trauma of those who moved to Pakistan and of the tens of thousands of Hindus and Sikhs who made their way out of their ancestral homes in the newly carved country to independent India. Carved out of India as a separate homeland for the Muslims of the subcontinent, the new state nevertheless was politically undermined by the fact that a very large number of Muslims, higher than the total population of Pakistan, stayed back in India. ![]() There was, in the first place, the very modus vivendi on which the state had come into being. The creation of Pakistan was in a good number of ways the emergence of a dilemma. ![]() For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel.
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