Islamabad/IBNS, April 17 -- Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir has backed the "two-nation theory" stating the forefathers who favoured the bifurcation of India in 1947 had realised the distinction between Hindus and Muslims, media reports said.

General Munir made the remark while addressing the Overseas Pakistanis Convention in Islamabad.

Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the All India Muslim League had favoured the two-nation theory in 1930s and 1940s believing that Muslims couldn't live freely in Hindu-majority India after the British left.

In 1930, philosopher-poet Allama Iqbal had proposed the idea of creating a separate Muslim state in North-West India.

In 1940, the Lahore Resolution had even demanded "independent st...