advantage and disadvantage with Indian Pakistan
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What were the advantages and disadvantages that Pakistan received as a result of its split with India?
As a (non-credentialed) historian, citizen-of-the-world, man with an interest in relations in and between foreign countries, and from other points of view, I genuinely can think of no significant advantages from the disaster of Partition--it did not make (today's) India a country of one religion, with its large minority of Muslims (as well as other smaller groups--not that I think it is necessarily best for a country to be dominated by a single religion anyway), nor satisfy Muslims' desire for the state they wanted, by not including the contested portions of Kashmir or Calcutta.
Partition of the Subcontinent led immediately to great civil strife, accompanied by the flight (by religion) in both directions of millions of refugees, many of whom died, to 3 major wars, later on and a paranoid East Pakistani state (and a corrupt and graft filled, and poor, Bengalidesh), two states competing as weaponized nuclear powers plus Pakistan's constant meddling in Afghanistan in a frankly delusional attempt to maintain military parity with (or even something close) with the vastly larger modern India by gaining 'strategic depth' in Afghani territory, AND a proliferation of Muslim terrorist groups and terrorist attacks. Add to those weaknesses a weak and unstable Pakistani state, an India often focused on its conflict with Pakistan rather than solving its own many internal problems, and the lack of a huge International example of two of the world's major religions living relatively peacefully in one country (with the Muslims less marginalized). In addition, the three nations would be significantly more powerful as one than as three separate and two of constantly at odds--wasting, I believe, a million dollars a day maintaining their military positions along high-mountains borderline that blocks Pakistan from territory it contests.
The split at Independence clearly seems a historic and tragic mistake, as Ghandi, the British, and many others thought at the time