In fact the truth cannot be farther than this. Pakistan was created by radical islam which was assisted by divide-and-conquer policy of perversely smart British.
British thinking at the time was to leave India but divide it before leaving between Hindus and Muslims. This would ensure a constant obstacle to India and would never let it focus on peace, economic growth and prosperity. British were being "smart". Only in hindsight, they would now realize what they did. Basically rather than suppressing and fighting radical fanatic muslims, British wanted to use them to fight Hindus and keep India week. In the retrospect, they would have been wiser to not accept fanatic muslim request for the partition of India and supress them then.
The remaining part of India chose to be a secular democracy and has more muslims than Pakistan anyways. So what benefit was derived by helping fanatic muslims in their quest for pakistan.
Those in the west who think pakistan can be a secular democracy fail to focus on the basic idea behind the creation of pakistan. And this idea was basically fanatic radical islamists thinking that did not want secularism and democracy. If they wanted secular democracy, then there was little reason for the demand for pakistan. After all India already has had 3 muslim presidents, so in fact Indian muslims who chose to remain in India are enjoying much better quality of life in a peaceful country.
The day pakistan will become a peaceful and secular democracy, their raison detre would cease to exist.
