pakistan

OTL Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan (East Pakistan) until the liberation war in 1971, triggered by Operation Searchlight - an attempted genocide by the Pakistani army. This was in many ways inevitable, Bengalis were ethnically, racially (according to the Pakistani army atleast), linguistically...

Sindh and Bengali Muslims are the most enthusiastic about the Pakistan Movement, while Punjab, Balochistan & Khyber-Pashtun are not as supportive. Had Britain favored the Indians and the Congress party more and allocated the whole of Kashmir and Punjab to India, the new Pakistani state would...

The Fourteen Points was made by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1929 in response to the Nehru Report. The Nehru Report was the Indian National Congress’s proposal for a government of an independent India. The Muslim League, led by Jinnah, opposed the report on the grounds that it didn’t provide enough...

India and Afghanistan often term their relationship as 'bhai-bhai' which loosely translated means (I think) "forever brothers." Pakistan has often borne the brunt of Afghan criticism in different decades even though they've done so much to open their borders during the Afghan Soviet invasion. It...

While most people on this board (including myself) think that successfull 1993 WTC bombing would lead to an earlier War on Terror with Sudan getting invaded due to hosting Al-Qaeda at the time, the attack itself was organized by a Pakistani terorrist Ramzi Yousef. So, let's say that the...

Like overall if, we're going from a POD, what kind of reforms would the countries of the Indian Subcontinent need to take (if no other country changes unless otherwise) for them to achieve a similar growth trajectory of China? I'm just trying to understand what kind of policies would need to be...

OTL Israel isn’t really a ‘sporting nation’ as such, neither its teams nor its players particularly well-known internationally. But what if in some ATL cricket had somehow managed to establish itself as the main (default) sport that Israel became relatively good at? OTL Israel Cricket Cricket...

This is set in 1947 a few months after Britain leaves India, only this time the states they leave behind are even less well constructed than OTL, being split into 16 states (Including Myanmar) rather than 2 like OTL, and also split not only through religion, but also ethnicity and with...

This thread is inspired by another one “What was the best case scenario for Afghanistan” but also fits in well alongside the recent one by Sardar, “Powerful India’s effects on the Cold War in Asia and the Middle East?” Many people inevitably come down heavy on Pakistan, on this forum, and its...

Could South Asia rival East Asian economies if it had played it's cards right? Much of South Asia did have a well established system of governance and good transportation systems relative to much of Asia. Burma and Sri Lanka were better off than South Korea in the 1950s, but all this changed due...

Pakistan's secularist (or non-sectarian) founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah led his country for about a year before tuberculosis and lung cancer took his life at 71 in 1948. Say that his health holds out for one reason another, perhaps cutting back on smoking, affording another two years of life for...

Introduction This (sideproject) Timeline will be focusing on the South Asian and Asian countries in the Cold War and Beyond starting from 1951 and beyond starting with a PoD from the 1951 Nepalese Revolution. The Timeline will heavily focus on the Indian Subcontinent and its member countries...

In a TL where India is never partitioned, what would its administrative divisions be like? (the territory I mean is modern-day India + Pakistan + Bangladesh; only these three, no Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, etc.), something similar to the present day with some alterations? This topic can be at...

All events external to Afghanistan remain same as OTL thus ATL will be Zia’s Islamic Pakistan (1977), Iranian Islamic Revolution (1979), but then an Afghan Islamic Revolution (1980). OTL Pakistan (1977) Sensing an Islamic renaissance that would sweep the majority of Islamic nations, Zia ul-Haq...

In this scenario, Jawaharlal Nehru passes away on the eve of Indian independence due to some illness. It falls upon Patel to take the reins of the new Republic. Would there be any significant changes in Indian polity and foreign relations? What about the Kashmir issue and the war with the PRC...

In 1968 the Pakistani Government arrested a number of persons including Mujib in connection with the Agartala Conspiracy Case but the case had to be dropped by the Government due to a popular uprising in East Pakistan without even completing the case. The case was filed in early 1968 and...

Just a smaller exercise of Alternate History, But what if George VI and Queen Mother Elizabeth were assassinated in India during their proposed Durbar in 1937 ? In OTL, George VI was planning on holding a Durbar in Delhi just like his Father before him but decided not to due to rising...

Hello fans of alternate history, I've been wonder how would create a timeline with a vastly stronger Pakistan? By stronger, I mean in terms of size, economy, resources, strategic position, influences, population and military strength ect if it means that subsequently a lot of the population...

Butterfly the Nation of Afghanistan and it be divided into 3 parts, Eastern Pashtu Afghanistan more aligned with Indian Subcontinent, Western, Herat led Afghanistan more aligned with Iran and Northern Uzbek and Tajik Areas being part of Central Asia

Gow would Indian subcontinent be if it were Islamic ? Let's say Arabs are able to overrun North and Central India and Conquer them like Iran, The main question is the effects of Islamic India How would language be, will a new Islamic script emerge or could Sanskrit be written in this new...