• Pakistan far from Jinnah's vision for a free secular nation

    From Jedi Master@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 27 22:00:05 2019
    Recent meeting of Pakistani Prime minister and President Trump brings up the 1947 contact with the U.S. secretary of state George Marshall.

    Deviation from the vision of its founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah has disturbed the peace and prosperity of south Asia. Since the partition of British India in 1947, Pakistan has nationalized Islam and stagnated in its political and economic development.
    Islamic holy war against humanity is the underlying cause of unending social conflict and violence. Until freedom of religion becomes the law of the land there cab be no real lasting progress. The higher vision of Mr. Jinnah must not be forgotten.

    Exurb from Mr. Jinnah's 1947 address to the newly formed government of Pakistan:

    Therefore, we must learn a lesson from this. You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has
    nothing to do with the business of the State. As you know, history shows that in England, conditions, some time ago, were much worse than those prevailing in India today. The Roman Catholics and the Protestants persecuted each other. Even now there are
    some States in existence where there are discriminations made and bars imposed against a particular class. Thank God, we are not starting in those days. We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community
    and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State.

    http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/legislation/constituent_address_11aug1947.html

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