Lemme hit you with some facts homeboy.
1. The muslims league and the Indian congress decided beforehand that NWFP would go to Pakistan, this was even before the "referendum" took place.
2. Bacha khan and other Pashtun nationalists boycotted the referendum due to the facts that NWFP had already been promised to Pakistan.
3. The option to join Afghanistan, or to create a seperate Pakhtunistan, was not on the referendum.
3. Voting was restricted and only certain people were allowed to cast their vote.
4. Most tribal Pashtuns were not allowed to vote , out of 3.5 million only 0.6 million were able to cast their votes.
5. Six tribal agencies were barred from voting.
6. The states of Swat, Dir, Chitral and Amb(which consists of present day Mansehra and Haripur District), were NOT allowed to vote as they were independant, yet they were incorperated into Pakistan 2 decades later
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And in the end, after all this effort by the muslims league, how many people voted for pakistan?
50.1%!
They went to all that trouble and in the end only suceeded by a margin.
Now this bring up and interesting question, had bacha khan and the other pashtun nationalists not boycotted, had ALL Pashtuns been able to cast their votes, had Afghanistan or Pashtunistan been an option on the referendum, would Pakhtunkhwa be apart of Pakistan today? Me thinks not.
I'll put a few quotes at the bottom and let you have a think about the referendum
"For all that, on the polling day they resorted to such rigging that it is hard to find a parallel. Ballot boxes were freely stuffed and even the votes of Khudai Khidmatgar leaders were cast. Let me cite two instances, one told to me by Sikandar Mirza himself who was former deputy commissioner in Hazara. Touring the polling booths he reached the one at the gullies. The staff proudly told him: “This is mountainous area. We have just 200 voters on the list here. But, Sir, we have already polled 210.”"
"Another instance is even more interesting. When several years later as a result of the 1970 election the National Awami Party formed the government in NWFP and several Muslim Leaguers came and joined us, one of the Muslim League ladies told me that she had herself cast 51 votes in the referendum"