Please stop extolling Pakistan : they don't deserve it

While talking about the treatment meted out to the Pakistan cricket team players by IPL franchisees - not one of them bid for a Pakistan player - Shahrukh Khan, himself an IPL team owner, spoke in favor of improving relations between the two countries. One the sidelines he said his family was from Pakistan and his father was born there.

I don't understand this. Technically, his father couldn't have been born in Pakistan which was created only after bifurcating India which happened on 14th August 1947. Until then the entire territory was 'India' and in my humble opinion can only be called or referred to as 'India'.

Unless with an intention of sucking up to a Pakistani audience, I do not see a reason why he should go to town claiming to be of Pakistani descent.

I remember the days in the past when some senseless leaders from the congress party called L K Advani a foreigner because he was born in a part of the then India which  is now Pakistan, as a retaliation of the latter's comments on Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin. In this case, Mr Advani lived in what was then a new country, Pakistan, for a few months before his family moved to India. That doesn't make him a foreigner either.

Unless otherwise somebody is sucking up to somebody else or being just their dumb selves, there is no logic behind such interpretations. So everybody, please top sucking up to Pakistan or giving them some sort of an indirect credit or merit.