hanibal
January 28, 2015, 6:34am
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Re: End of the past?
thx for a lively debate…
one question that i had
if you agree that the narrative that was created post 71 for certain geopolitical reasons and which was further enhanced and radicalized by zia regime needs to be changed, then what shd be our new narrative?
that Pakistan was created purely on religious grounds and that muslims wanted a country where they could by live Islamic principles and that 2 nation theory was crux of our division rationale … if we strictly go by this rationale, our history books will always have a certain type of religious flavor … akbar will be abused being secualr and aurazgzeb will be the great savior or
shd we teach that division of pakistan was primarily done to protect Muslims’ economic and political benefits because under one man one vote democracy, hindus would always be in majority.
This is already there in our books, which say some thing like this, “the visionary leadership of Quaid-e-Azam already knew that in united Sub-continent, Muslims will always be a minority and their political and economic interests shall be depended on the Hindu majority, hence the need of Pakistan…”
the problem with us is, we do not read it..