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 Attia's father-in-law Sheikh Mohammed Habibullah, mother-in-law Begum Inam on right in Naini Tal, ca. 1925  He [Jinnah] said to me, "Oh but partition had to come because, you see, look, there would have been tremendous rioting."I said, the English said that. But you have had wars between sovereign countries [India and Pakistan in 1948, 1965 and 1971]. Is that better or worse than rioting? No, there was no great, unified structure in that subcontinent before the British made it happen. But once it was there, had there not been this fissiparous [secessionist] movement and the same strength, as I said, put into peace, we wouldn't have had these tragedies of today.  | |||
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