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When Pakistan was born and became an independent country.
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AHMED MIR GEOGRAPHY PROJECT I have chosen to speak about when Pakistan was born and became an independent country. This happened in August 1947.This was when Gandhi was alive and he was the one who separated the countries so India could become a whole Hindu country as before August 1947 India was full of Muslims as well as Hindus. But Gandhi wanted two countries one for Hindu's and one for Muslims, thus Pakistan is born. But immediately after independence, Pakistan had to deal with a massive refugee problem: while 5.3 million Hindus fled from Punjab and Sindh into India, 5.9 million Muslims fled from India into West Pakistan. 3.3 million Hindus fled East Pakistan, 1.3 million Muslims fled from India into East Pakistan. Meaning lots of people were immigrating and emigrating, this caused a huge rush on trains from Pakistan to India visa versa. The partition of India and Pakistan in 1947...
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