How truely it predicted some things
Should Pakistan be renamed as The Dominion of Pakistan, like it was originally intended by the Qaid?
Re: An article from 1947 about The Dominion of Pakistan
What difference does it make? Besides do you want to be called a DOPy?
How truely it predicted some things
Should Pakistan be renamed as The Dominion of Pakistan, like it was originally intended by the Qaid?
The term Dominion was dropped by all countries that used it, after the British Empire ceased to exist. Dominions were design to exist as nations within the Empire. No Empire means no Dominions.
Re: An article from 1947 about The Dominion of Pakistan
It should be Dominion of Taliban.
The term Dominion was dropped by all countries that used it, after the British Empire ceased to exist. Dominions were design to exist as nations within the Empire. No Empire means no Dominions.
Very interesting, I didn't even realize that aspect of it. Magar the british empire fizzled out during the ww2, so how do you 'splain the name change 10 years AFTER Pakistan was born?
I honestly didn't even realize that aspect when I asked the question about changing the name back to dominion.
Very interesting, I didn't even realize that aspect of it. Magar the british empire fizzled out during the ww2, so how do you 'splain the name change 10 years AFTER Pakistan was born?
I honestly didn't even realize that aspect when I asked the question about changing the name back to dominion.
The Empire never officially fizzled out. The term "Empire" simply dropped from use over time as territories administered by Britain decreased in number and significance.
Pakistan didn't change name for 10 years for the same reason that it remained a monarchy for 10 years - because our politicians couldn't agree on a system of government, let alone a name. Jinnah had formed a Constituent Assembly to create a constitution for Pakistan that would define the country, but its work had barely begun when he died.
It is inaccurate to say that Jinnah intended Pakistan to be a Dominion. Rather, as Pakistan became independent before the Muslim League had a detailed model for what kind of state it should be, Jinnah accepted what Britain offered immediately: full independence as a Dominion within the Empire, with Jinnah holding all the powers of the King and exercising them on the King's behalf. This was the same independence that Britain gave to all of its colonies at the moment of decolonisation: Dominion status, with the right to change it later.
Along with that full independence came the right to sever all ties with the King, as Pakistan did once it worked out what form of government to have on a permanent ongoing basis.
Re: An article from 1947 about The Dominion of Pakistan
I see. I just disagree about a couple of things.
The british empire cracked in the first world war, and broke apart during the first few years of the second world war. The US moved into pacific territories controlled by britain, hence freeing up british influence over southeast asia. It was the powerhouse area of britain which brought in safe passage for sea ships, cheap agricultural products among other things.
I agree with the other stuff. Do you think that the Qaid wanted the land to be a secular democracy, with islamic roots, for muslims. Or did he want strict sunni sharia law?
I see. I just disagree about a couple of things.
The british empire cracked in the first world war, and broke apart during the first few years of the second world war. The US moved into pacific territories controlled by britain, hence freeing up british influence over southeast asia. It was the powerhouse area of britain which brought in safe passage for sea ships, cheap agricultural products among other things.
I agree with the other stuff. Do you think that the Qaid wanted the land to be a secular democracy, with islamic roots, for muslims. Or did he want strict sunni sharia law?
In the first few years of the second war the empire lost few of its possessions other than east asia. It was very much alive and kicking by 1945, when at the end of the war it fielded its most powerful armed forces ever. The Empire really only began diminishing quickly after the Suez Crisis, when it was forced to back off against one of its former possessions.
As for the Quaid.... he quite shrewdly managed to be ambiguous enough to retain both the Islamists and secularists on his sides by making statements that supported both, whilst not contradicting themselves. One can only imagine that in his wisdom he believed that as one man he alone had no right to dictate the nature of the state and instead left the decision to the people, through their elected representatives.