Your email, well intentioned as it might be, betrays a lack of in-depth knowlegde on Pakistan. I don’t blame you but the key source of information on our country - the corporate media is biased, hollow and promotes falsehoods.

Pakistan is a robust country with 160 million inhabitants who have proved themselves across the globe. yes it has many problems and it is passing through a difficult phase but it will not wither away - such predictions were made right from its inception. I suggest that you visit Pakistan and see for yourself how close it is to the situation that you painted.

And, also let me object: the comparison between Modi and Mr Jinnah is irrational to say the least. Mr Jinnah wanted a separate country but he did not order or manage porgroms in the name of religion. Above all he was a democrat and former ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity until he was pushed to the wall by the strong center politics of the Congress. He had even agreed to the Cabinet Mission Plan until Pandit Nehru, Mr Patel and others rejected that vision of Unity.
In India, history is viewed in a partisan sense like Pakistan - I suggest that you also read H M Seervai’s Partition of India: legend and reality to see how some Indians tried to view history objectively. Alas, such views are sidelined in India.

Yes we lost East Pakistan but that was a separate story. That was unworkable anyway - two wings separated by a country that to put it mildly was not keen on its unity. And, Rahul gandhi’s claim that ‘we’ the Gandhis destroyed Pakistan should make it clear.

I, like many others numbering in millions - the middle class - will not pack up and go - Pakistan is the only country we have!!! And we love it and want it to prosper.
And , we shall overcome the difficulties that we face like most other developing countries including India in due course.

I respect your views and participation on this blog and forgive me if I was improper - I just wanted to make my point.