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Pakistan (and Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan) was created as Muslim territory due to the Muslim league's pestering, when the desires of Mountbatten (the guy who organised it all) were to create a unified state. Them having Pakistan and what's now Bangladesh was them trying to give them the smallest amount of territory possible. It was essentially how Britain approached giving independence to territories at the time, especially to niggling minorities. Before I get to India proper and for totally unrelated reasons to anything I just said, here's how Israel (Mandatory Palestine) was originally going to be divided, everything to the left of the red line going to Jews, everything on the right going to Muslims:Not taking a side currently but how does Pakistan even justify its existence. At least India exists as its own thing even if its a reprehensible mess. Might as well just merge the two already

The situation had more nuances to it. Within India there also several autonomous regions not technically under the control of Britain, so they were given a choice on whether to join India or not. Beside that, the country was primarily divided based on religious grounds and not race. This lead to the weird original territory of Pakistan. However, the original borders were probably worse:
Every territory that says 'annexed' was done so through war or coercion. The post-independence migration also saw the death of millions as Muslims and Hindus moved into their respective countries, which is probably why Mountbatten wanted to keep it whole.
TLDR: Muslims wanted to Muslim in their own country.
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