This is an interesting thread. Pakistanis can't seem to understand the Indian bafflement for their oversimplified question. And Indians can't understand why Pakistanis are asking this question in the first place.
My own view is: after 70 years of being separated, the two societies are grown so apart that they simply can't understand each other at an intrinsic level. Mahatma Gandhi was careful about ensuring establishment of basic political framework before independence from the British was formalized. In chouri choura, he suspended the Non-Cooperation Movement after 20+ policemen were violently killed. He decided that India wasn't ready for independence in 1922. On the other hand, Pak was established by someone who threatened direct and violent civil war unless his demands were met.
The results are clear and there was certain inevitability about it.
India has gone on to become a secular democratic society. We take our elections for granted. We know that once the elections are conducted, there would be smooth transfer of power irrespective of who won. We know 100% that our armed forced will never try to seize political power and will remain in the barracks come what may. We know that when we select our cricket captain, we don't look at his religion (heck, Indian cricket selection used to be influenced by many other biases like which state / region, but never religion!). When we go to school, we make friends with whoever we want to, and don't divide people by religion. While there continues to be some communal violence from time to time, Indian society at large is secular. Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians get along just fine without thinking about religion in a conscious way.
Pakistanis simply can't understand this. Their nation was born out of a violent threat. From thereon it went downhill. Army has seized power at least four times by my count. No one trusts the political process, not even the Pakistanis themselves. Sunnis and shias can't get along, leave alone any hope for the Hindus and Christians. Not being exposed to the complex political process the Indians are so used to, they ask this oversimplified question -- "how come there hasn't been a Muslim PM or Army General?" In a society that doesn't bat an eyelid before making Azhar the captain, or where Azim Premji has as much chance of succeeding in technology industry as Narayan Murthy, there is inevitability about a Muslim PM too. It will happen when someone is ready. It's just that it's not an important question at all and Indians don't even think about it as a question to ask. Pakistanis, given your upbringing over the past 70 years, will never understand it.
