In 2021, it was estimated at 210 million, which means that the country has about 200 million Muslim citizens. India would thus be divided into two parts — a predominantly Hindu India and a predominantly Muslim Pakistan. Of these, eight million Muslims came into Pakistan and six million Hindus and Sikhs left in the opposite direction. Once the movement was done, 34 million Muslims, eight million more than at the time of the country’s birth, were now resident in Pakistan. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s founding father, had created a Muslim state, not a nation that was Islamic.

Source: The Express Tribune September 20, 2021 03:22 UTC