A nice article. Thought I should share.
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^ I think it can be a nice discussion topic. Please write some statement in your topic so as to give it a direction. I hope a good discussion will stem out of it. I am already ready to post.
Re: Pakistan, Constitutiona and Quaid e Azam
/\ /\ point well taken.
My observation of the read is:
Since the time Pakistan was created, we haven't yet been able to put in place the ideology of its creation. We are still struggling to draft the constitution according to our own pitty desires. Unless this is stopped, we don't see a bright future of Pakistan.
So, the topic of discussion should be:
What should be the ideal constitution of Pakistan. Should it be kept in accord as to what Quad e Azam prescribed for us (i.e., separate homeland for muslims where everyone will be equal irrespective of color, race and religion etc), or should we modify it according to the popular demand.
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Why should any country stay in perpetuity in the mold that its founder created it in?
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Okay JeveayPakistan
It is a fact that Pakistan has an ideology and it was well explained by the founder of Pakistan in EXPLICIT words.
In his speech at the Frontier Muslim League Conference on November 21, 1945, he said:
“We have to fight a double edged battle, one against the Hindu Congress and the British Imperialists, both of them being capitalists. The Muslims demand Pakistan where they could rule according to their own code of life and according to their own cultural growth, traditions and Islamic laws.”
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Address to the **
**Officers of Pakistan Government
11th October, 1947
“Finally, let me tell you, fellow citizens, Pakistan is a land of great potential resources. But to build it up into a country worthy of the Muslim nation, we shall require every ounce of energy that we possess and I am confident that it will come from all whole-heartedly.”
“The establishment of Pakistan for which we have been striving for the last ten years is, by grace of God, an established fact today, but the creation of a State of our own was a means to an end and not the end in itself. The idea was that we should have a state in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find fairplay.”
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Has this objective been achieved...
And if the ideology is this, it is absurd...
Pakistan couldn't make a constitution because there was the question of East-West Pakistan demographic disparity and Punjabis feared that a representative constititution will be a blow to their inlfluence...moreover, the Muslim League leaders, mostly feudals, Sirs and Nawabs had used the slogan of Islam only for politics.....and they were idecisive of how should be the Islamic character of the constitution....one other factor was the leaders who had migrated from India didn't have constituencies to contest elections from...
Only after they imposed One Unit in 1956, did they make a constitution....
A good book on this is "Destruction of Democracy in Pakistan"...