Re: Fatima Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan
Azad was no visionary. He was an extremist mullah who opposed Pakistan just like other extremist mullahs of his time. People like Maududi, and Khaksars.
These people hated Quaide Azam the person more than the idea of Pakistan the country.
Some people say that creation of Pakistan divided the strength of Muslims in the South Asian subcontinent. In a united country Muslims would have been about 35% of the population. A significant number.
But what they don’t realize is that just percentages do not matter. It is the influence which means more. Examples are minority rules in Saddam’s Iraq, Assad’s Syria, and Khalifa family’s Bahrain.
Majority Muslim population centers, which became Pakistan, were one of the most economically backward places in British India. Bangali Muslims of present-day Bangladesh were marginalized in a United Bengal which was being ruled by Hindu Bengalis. This is why there were efforts to free Bengali Muslims in 1910s by dividing Bengal in Muslim and Hindu areas. But these efforts failed and Muslim majority remained poor and powerless in Bengal.
Same thing happened in Sindh which was put under Bombay province. Present-day Sindh was also being ruled by Hindu minority with help from Bombay Hindus.
Had Pakistan not been made, Muslim majority places would have remained economically marginalized with little say in national politics. Pakistanis and Bangladeshis would not have been able to enjoy this freedom to rule, and a chance to develop themselves had Pakistan not been created.
It is another matter that we are trying our best today to ensure that QA’s vision of Pakistan would appear like a mistake. This is due to our wrong priorities. Today we have Taliban on one side and feudals on another (Nawazs, Bhuttos, Shujaats, Sardars).
It is these wrong priorities which have destroyed Pakistan. It is not QA who should be blamed for making THIS Pakistan, because this Pakistan was not his vision at all.