Nationhood Conundrum
"Nations are born in the hearts of the poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians", Allama Iqbal said. A nation can be defined as a group of people having a same language and a similar culture residing at same place and era--thanks to political science. This group of people often requires a territory to establish a self-government for the self-help and very survival on the face of Earth as well as for a collective good and the order for its people. Without a sustainable order in society , an anarchy,whom Thomas Hobbes called a state of nature, sees the manifestation of pessimistic behavior of human nature and creating an unprecedented unrest which history of mankind has repeatedly seen. These nations, consisting of a uniform ethnic societies, are more often prone to settle their disputes amicably and results in building a national government for them. On the other hand, post-colonialism saw a series of independent nations which were nowhere in history an...