Wasn't Israel also (re-)founded for purely religious reasons?

AnnaS, I was thinking of the very same thing while writing the post!
There is a difference though between Pakistan and Israel; Israel does have historical/ cultural/ religious connections with the land, which makes their return to the Middle East, a little more than the ludicrous notion of creating a state based on a religion. Also, the land was 'settled' by the Jews, (some of it 'bought' from the local Arabs), whereas, Paksitan was *partitioned off from India. The result is a multi- ethnic population whose only common point of interest is that the majority practices Islam. The irony is that the land was partitoned off to create a purely Muslim nation, whilst today, more Muslims live in India than in Pakistan, which makes the entire exercise of separation, somewhat redundant and robs Pakistan of its raison d'etre.