Demographic perspectives

Let us now consider the demographic characteristics of those countries.

1. India has a population of about 1.17 billion, out of which Hindus are 80.5%, 13.4% Muslims. India’s ethnic groups are 72% Indo Aryan and rest others. About 25% are classified as Dravidian.
2. Pakistan has a population of 176.2 million people out of which 95% are Muslims and 5% others. More than 37% of its population is under the age of 14 years. Pakistanis, most of who were Indio Aryans are no longer so. They are Sunni 75%, Shia 20% divided into Punjabi 48%, Sindhi 12%, Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10%, Pashtu 8%, Urdu (official) 8%, Balochi 3%, Hindko 2%, Brahui 13.
3. In Bangladesh, the population is 156 million people out of which 83% are Muslims and 16% are Muslims. Ethnically they are all Bangla. 4.
4. Sri Lanka has a population of about 21 million, out of which about 70% are Buddhists, about 8% are Muslims and 7% Hindus. Sri Lankan ethnicities are Sinhalese 73.8%, Sri Lankan Moors 7.2%, Indian Tamil 4.6%, Sri Lankan Tamil 3.9%, other 0.5%, unspecified 10%5.
5. Myanmar has a population of 45% out of which 90% are Buddhists and 4% Muslims. Burma is 68% Burman and only 2% Hindus6.
6. Afghanistan has a population of about 45 million of which are Sunni Muslim 80%, Shia Muslim 19%, other 1%. Ethnically they are considered as Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%

(Statistics are based on CIA Fact Book available in the Internet)

Vexing Muslim population and waning Hindu population

Lastly, there is the difficulty of peaceful coexistence with Muslim population. Islam entered India in 711 AD, when Mohammad Bin Qasim invaded Sindh, but Muslim population did not begin to increase until the 12th Century. At that time, the entire population was Hindu. Now the entire population of that region is Muslim. Muslim population began to swell in India only after the 12th Century. The explosive growth of Muslim population by forceful conversion, massacre, rape and slavery until the British East India Company began its inroads in India, the Muslim persecution of Hindus is quite well documented. Even after 1947, Muslims never stopped persecuting Hindus. They have proved time and again that they cannot coexist with people of any religion. How they make sure show that is by killing them. This was true especially at the time during the time of independence, when the minority Hindu population of almost 25% of Hindus in Pakistan and 30% in Bangladesh were either killed. Only a few economically better off people could escape into India. At the time of independence the Muslim population was about 6%. In 60 years their population is said to be more than 20%. Some estimate it to be about 30%.