“What we want, what we want is not to talk about Bengali, Punjabi, Sindhi, Sindh, Punjab, Province of Punjab, Kashmir… Yes, there are units, there are provinces.. Pathan, yes.
But I ask you. have you forgotten the lesson when Islam brought it 13 centuries ago. Islam has brought you here. And I think, you will agree with me, that whatever it is you may be or whatever you are, YOU’RE A MUSLIM!!”
(Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah at mass gathering in Chittagong, March 1948)