Pakistan became independent from British India as a Muslim-majority state with two wings to the east and northwest of India respectively.

A Hindu maharajah then ruled the Muslim-majority state.

Mr. Geelani argued that because Kashmir was a Muslim-majority state, it belonged for historical, political and religious reasons with Pakistan.

Today the flag is also used by Muslim-majority states which are not successor states of the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey was the first Muslim-majority state to recognize Israel, just one year after its founding, and they have the longest shared close military and economic ties.

Pakistan can say that a Muslim-majority state is at the heart of the new South Asia.

Serbian and Croatian minorities complain they will not get a fair shake in the Muslim-majority state.

The party played upon the discrimination Hindus felt in a Muslim-majority state.

Since both countries became independent a half-century ago, Pakistan has been challenging India's control over this restive Muslim-majority state.

At the time, Kashmir's maharaja, a Hindu, joined the fortunes of his Muslim-majority state to India.