" At the root of Pakistan’s national identity crisis has been the unresolved debate on how to square the state’s self- proclaimed Islamic identity with the obligations of a modern nation- state. This has been confounded by an official history that cannot explain the gaping inconsistencies between the claims of Muslim nationalism and the actual achievement of statehood at the moment of the British withdrawal. "

― Ayesha Jalal , The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics