The roots of terrorism can be traced back to the pernicious ideology behind the demand for a separate Pakistan in British India. Premised on the “two-nation” theory, the Pakistan movement harped on the irreconcilable differences between the Muslims and the Hindus. Following the dictums of radical Islam, the nation that came being on August 14, 1947, was an artificial construct with various elements in mutual disharmony with each-other.
