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India was divided into two separate independent states under the 'Two nations theory i) India for the Hindus and ii) Pakistan for the Muslims.
India and Pakistan achieved independence in 1947.
Thirty-four years after British rule (During the World War I the British ... invaded and conquered the Turkish Muslim Ottoman Empire including Palestine) in Palestine, Palestine was divided into two independent states i) Palestine for the Arab Muslims and ii) Israel for the Jews.
When India and Pakistan became two separate independent states in 1947, Bangladesh, the former East Bengal, legally and constitutionally became the part and parcel of Pakistan under the 'Two nations theory.'
But Pakistan ruled former East Pakistan/East Bengal now Bangladesh like a colony.
The people of former East Pakistan/East Bengal, now Bangladesh, protested and demanded their rights, and subsequently jumped into the war of liberation and won their independence after 24 years of Pakistani colonial rule in 1971.
But the fate of Kashmir, which both Pakistan and India claim, is still uncertain. When will the Kashmir issue be resolved finally?
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