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Regionalism, Ethnic Conflict and Islam in Pakistan: Impact on Foreign Policy

The Pakistan of 1947 was the realisation of a dream and a vision. It had secured a free and independent polity for Muslim India after almost two centuries, during which Muslims had been losing power to non-Muslim Hindu and British forces. It was the harbinger of great things to come, perhaps the revival of the glory that Islam had been at one time. But within 24 years its eastern wing, containing the majority of its population, had violently, and through a bloody war, wrenched itself away from the bosom of this Muslim nation. And, as if to stick the knife deeper, separatist movements have thri…