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The Pakistani minority has declined from 15-20% in 47 to 2-3% due to following reasons:
1)The numbers which say it was 15% in 1947 are before the massive influx of Muslims migrating in and Hindus migrating out. So with a whole lot of post partition migration the demographics naturally got skewed in favor of Muslims.
2)Most of the Hindu minority percentage was also made up by hindus of East Pakistan where there was a much larger percentage of greater than 20%. When they separated again there was a dent because %age of Hindus as part of East wing's population was higher than the West.
I know a lot of people propagate how it has reduced from 15% to 3% minority number but saying it enough times doesn't mean it happened the way you want it to be (as far as some people are concerned.) To achieve that you would need widescale genocide over decades which simply is not the case.
For some reason, despite it making no sense, internet Indian warriors keep using this fallacious number. If you just look at numbers from current day Pakistan they remain more or less the same.
1)The numbers which say it was 15% in 1947 are before the massive influx of Muslims migrating in and Hindus migrating out. So with a whole lot of post partition migration the demographics naturally got skewed in favor of Muslims.
2)Most of the Hindu minority percentage was also made up by hindus of East Pakistan where there was a much larger percentage of greater than 20%. When they separated again there was a dent because %age of Hindus as part of East wing's population was higher than the West.
I know a lot of people propagate how it has reduced from 15% to 3% minority number but saying it enough times doesn't mean it happened the way you want it to be (as far as some people are concerned.) To achieve that you would need widescale genocide over decades which simply is not the case.
For some reason, despite it making no sense, internet Indian warriors keep using this fallacious number. If you just look at numbers from current day Pakistan they remain more or less the same.