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For Indian Muslims and their connection with India's state, Pakistan's creation posed issues. A pundit described the outcome as a 'conquest of idolatry,' and incidences of the Pakistani triumph being welcomed in India led to communally heated abuse on social media. the profound political roots that concerns of identity and belonging have, even when elicited in the seemingly benign framework of cricket, was shown vividly by Pakistani Home Minister Sheikh Rasheed's remark the "sentiments of India's Muslims were with the Pakistani squad." The Dynamics Of Islamic Identity Beyond Indo-Pak Borders. There are interesting parallels between this current controversy about Muslim citizenship in India and the famous dispute between Jawaharlal Nehru and poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal about whether...