With regard to the article "No end in sight to 'slow-burn' Bangladesh turmoil" (Feb. 17), Bengalis live in our hearts and they will overcome the internal turmoil in their country. The fairy tale of Pakistan began in Muhammad Iqbal's heart as the two-nation theory. Rehmat Ali coined the name "Pakistan". Muhammad Ali Jinnah gave shape and form to Iqbal's dream in 1947, the unparalleled birth of the largest Muslim nation of the world with two wings separated by over 1,000 miles - one from where the sun rises -Bengal - and the other where the sun sets. But the seeds of Pakistan were sown much earlier in Dhaka when the Muslim League was born in 1906. The 1971 loss was mutual. Muhammad Sarmad Alamgir Dar, Online response