Pakistan’s different history is a product of a number of things: the most basic fact being that despite its size (which was considerable) Pakistan did not inherit a state, a government and institutions, the way India did. The Congress simply walked into Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Parliament and all the preexisting institutions of the British government, and took their seat on the throne. India already had a functioning judiciary, state governments with different roles than the centre, and a centre to rule the nation from. Pakistan was a collection of provinces — all of which had strong independent identities — and had to be integrated and ruled cohesively without the help of a preexisting ruling apparatus. It was this weak centre that precipitated the instability Pakistan would see in coming years, and also the constant interference from the army to keep the country together. And the problem of ‘provincialism,’ as Jinnah called it, is still prevalent today: the clash between regional groups who continue to dominate the country (Sindhis, Punjabis, Bengalis) and the Mohajirs, or immigrants, who the country was created by and for, is alive.