Secular Pakistan: ‘Pakistanis should know Quaid’s Aug 11 speech by heart’

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Re: Secular Pakistan: ‘Pakistanis should know Quaid’s Aug 11 speech by heart’

@Med911

Whether the rulers were religious or not is irrelevant. Its the fact that they were never sincere is what is at issue. The rulers did whatever they could to remain in power or get into power. religiosity or lack there of was not in issue. Where it served them they were religious, and where it didn’t they were not. They courted the religious right to win support and legitimacy and appealed to religious populous.

The only one who was perhaps sincere in his convictions, but in entirely the wrong direction was Zia. He was dismissive of democratic norms, and left wing ideology because he was dictator in the truest sense and a right wing conservative of the worst kind. And he was sincere to his ideological leaning, because his regressive policies were in step with his religious conservative persona, unlike people like Bhutto who despite being a liberal, still passed laws against Ahmadis, etc.

Why it does not matter that rulers were religious or not when all the criticism is based on Zia being ‘religious’?
Please explain the reason for this hypocritical views.

Interestingly, I have already answered all these points but you came again with same criticism.

I already mentioned Zia was not the only ruler. He came in 1970’s and gone in 80’s.

Pakistan existed before and after him with rulers who were secular and brought misery to Pakistan. Just as Zia used religion for his goal to fool the masses with wrong decisions, Bhutto family and many others irreligious did the same.

The country was divided BEFORE Zia.

He was not an elected ruler anyway so we have to move on beyond him.

Very interesting that all of the problems of Pakistan for ‘secularists’ boil down to minority issues/human rights, Ahmadis, blasphemy laws etc.
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It looks like secularists and many critics of Pakistan have very myopic views of Pakistani problems. **

They somehow want minority issue resolved and all other issues which relates to Pakistan at large, they conveniently forget.

Almost every other thread in PA or this BB relates to minority issues, just like desi movies cannot be made without a love story, dances and songs.
Its getting very boring to read all the time, my friend.