It’s my personal opinion that it was not necessary. Don’t jump at me! I think Pakistan and India together, if able to get along, can benefit greatly from having similar language and culture. We could make it big but the British had to ruin it for us. Did you know India was the richest country in the world before the British invaded it? Imagine what heights we could have reached if we weren’t colonized. Muslim blood shed isn’t any different than Hindu or Sikh blood shed. We all suffered from the partition.