No, it was not on geographical grounds

This refers to an untimely and unrealistic article titled The Idea of Pakistan authored by Mr Shahid Javed Burki, published in Dawn of September 16, 2008. This seems to be a totally sponsored, untrue story which has been intentionally published to damage the personality of the father of the nation and to give vent to the real spirit of the creation of Pakistan.

I vehemently condemn such stray writings of those biased-intellectuals who are bent upon creating doubts in the rank and file of the Pakistanis, especially the younger generation. O' Lord! It is easy to make every body understand the spirit of the ideology of Pakistan and the meanings of the Two-Nation Theory but it is hard to make such pseudo intellectuals understand (though at heart they very well understand it) as to what actually meant when the Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah so categorically said: "Hindus and Muslims can never evolve a common nationality since they belong to two different religious philosophies and social customs. They stand poles apart (and even today they stand poles apart). They don't interdine together nor do they intermarry because they belong to two different civilisations which are based on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Not only this, their concepts on life and of life are different. They have different epics, their heroes are different, and they have different episodes. Very often the hero of one is the foe of other."

The above historically logical statement is a very clear answer to Mr Burki's argument regarding Two-Nation Theory and it is also enough proof to prove that there was least possibility of the two nations to live side by side peacefully in this vast subcontinent of South Asia after the end of the British rule.

Should Mr Burki and his cunning discussant Anil Khilmani of John Hopkin's School believe that it was one hundred percent correct 70 years ago and, even now in the 21st century. It is more than one hundred percent correct that both the nations still have the same bitter feelings for each other which they had in the decades of thirties and forties. Since then the Pakistani nation has experienced Hindu enmity thrice in 1948, 1965 and 1971 respectively.