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Show 12 between the Pakistans view of the world and the actions of the world's nations in relation to Kashmir and the Arab's view in relatioo to Israel. Partition The more so experience of :partition was a traumatic one for Pakistan, for West Pakistan than for East Pakistan for two reasons, first the communal strife and India of the Hindu and Sikh deep scars on to secondly the nearly total migration The communal strife left populations. the millions who made it from India to Pakistan. There had been scattered communal outbreaks for several months before partition but it an was only in early Augus, 1947 when they broke On unprecedented scale. August 9 traveling from Delhi tOliard Karachi passengers were centrate their attacked. was derailed The Sikhs had tared in towns and Special Tran • • • and the HusUm apparently decided to Muslims from the area, con- Muslims were slaugh- villages and refugees streaming towrd the west t:rains, in motor convoys and on foot came under continuous attack. Foreign correspondents in the area reported that the carnage was horr! ble than on community within East Punjab, and to achieve this goal planned to drive all the on "a Pakistan out anything they had seen during the war. ,,23 more "By the end of 1947 at least four million Muslims had reached safety in West Pakistan, while a million more had been killed.·t tion transfer in modern 24 In thi s , the history Pakistan gained about largest populaone million persons. The exodus of Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan "included all the merclts, h&lkers, and traders, most of the doctors and technical |
