India, Oct. 25 -- Turkey believes it can spark a sectarian crisis and then leverage United Nations diplomacy to empower Indian Muslims to further divide the country.

There has always been an undercurrent in Pakistani and Turkish Islamist discourse that no Indian Muslims should live under non-Muslim rule. On 6 August 2019, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said Pakistani founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah had "supported the two-nation theory to give the Muslims of India a separate homeland that is free from bigotry and racism." Khan did not stop at the partition. He added that one day, "India will only be a country for the Hindus."

On 16 April 2025, Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir declared, "Our forefathers thought that we are diff...