I am going to outline some new ideas on how external and internal threats can be effectively managed, within the framework of multiculturalism, secularism, religious freedom, and human rights.

Ethnic Cleansing and Justice

Statistics tell the full and complete story of non-Muslim ethnic cleansing designed and executed by Pakistan in South Asia during the last 50 years. The non-Muslim populations, consisting of over 20% and 35% respectively in Pakistan and Bangladesh just before Partition in 1947, have now reduced to less than 2% and 10% respectively, thanks to a systematic campaign of terrorism and genocide conducted by Pakistanis and other Islamists. This pattern too has repeated in the Kashmir valley, another Muslim majority region of South Asia, but a part of India. Here too, local Islamic extremists supported by Pakistanis have managed to get rid of most non-Muslims. However, most Muslims were allowed to stay in secular India in the aftermath of the partition. Since 1951, Indian Muslim population has increased from about 10% to 15%.

The non-Muslim ethnic cleansing conducted by Pakistan has created a land imbalance in its favor and to the detriment of India, with India having to accommodate 85% of the population in 75% of the land. In 1947, when it was becoming obvious that West Pakistan was going to expel most of its non-Muslim citizens to India, Sardar Patel, the then Deputy Prime Minister of India wanted to annex some portions of West Pakistan as a compensation for creating this land imbalance. But he was prevented from doing so by Pandit Nehru, the then Indian Prime Minister. This act of Pakistan was against the understanding reached at the time of partition, a few months earlier.