The Dangerous Punjabi Supremacy Narrative
Equally dangerous is the rhetoric that Punjab “owns” Lahore or that non-Punjabis must earn the right to study there. This logic fractures the very idea of Pakistan. The same reasoning could be applied in reverse elsewhere, and once that logic spreads, the federation becomes transactional and fragile.
Pakistan was not built as a confederation of ethnic silos. It was built as a shared political project. Turning every debate into a Punjab-versus-the-rest narrative is exactly how 1971 happened.
Those invoking Bengali resentment as proof of Punjabi fault also miss the lesson: alienation grows when dialogue collapses into dominance narratives. The cure is inclusion, not ethnic entitlement.
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