I’ve often heard that during the partition of British India Lahore was going to be given to India but at the last moment it given to Pakistan due to Pakistan lacking any city without it.
My issue with this explanation was that Karachi and Dhaka going to be part of Pakistan. Were they not large cities at the time? Or were they only developed post independence?
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