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The word "Pakistan" is an acronym for Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, and Indus-Sind, and means, in Urdu, "Land of the Pure." Those who had been awarded confessionally "pure" territory immediately set about expelling or slaughtering all those of the "wrong" religion in the "wrong" place. Mahatma Gandhi told the British that they should cut him in two before they partitioned the country. But to no avail. He was so upset by this betrayal – "divide and rule" degenerating into "divide and quit" – that he refused to attend the independence celebrations. (it) |
