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In reply to the discussion: Taliban take 500 children hostage in Army school in Peshawar [View all]cosmicone
(11,014 posts)with an ostentatious reason of safeguarding religious minorities. They did this out of spite because they were squarely defeated by the freedom fighters.
They played to the large ego of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, a Mumbai based cigar smoking, whiskey drinking, womanizing barrister who wanted to be prime minister. Then they kept the proposed boundaries secret until the last minute and displaced millions of people.
Several million people lost their lives and countless hundreds of thousands lost everything they owned. Furthermore, thy made the Hindu-Muslim tensions worse and created eternal enemies and a headache for the world.
I am sure some brits were laughing and smirking at the prank they played with millions of lives because their ego was bruised.