Re: Secular Pakistan
Dude, the Mughals, were hardly Islamic. Babur, Jahngir, Akbar, Shah Jehan, all the these people were very liberal. Especially Akbar, who invited Jesuits to his court. The rulers of India were Muslim in name, but their dispensation was secular. That is why they were in power for so long. They adopted Hindu traditions, married into Hindu families, etc etc.
The downfall of the Mughals and the enmity of the minorities of India creeped during the reign of Aurangzeb, the self styled champion of Islam, who instituted all sorts of Islamic laws, including the Jaziya. It was due to this distorted Islamic ethos of his that say the rise of hostility between Hindus and their Muslim leader, the destruction of cultural institutions, the demise of Architecture, art etc.
So the success of the Muslim rulers of India was due to being Secular, not to being overtly Islamic, atleast until Aurangzheb who single handidly destroyed the legacy of his much wiser an more secular predecessors. Even Aurangzeb himself on his death bed acknowledged his faults and advised his sons to look to his SECULAR ancestors for inspiration and not to hm.
The reason you didnt see mass conversions by force or other outward signs of hostility between Muslims and Hindus, was due to the adoption by the Muslim courts of the liberal Chishti school of Sufi Islamic philosophy, which emphasized Humanity over religion. This philosophy not only won many converts to Islam, but also created harmony among the people. Ofcourse, today the same sufi school of thought is frowned upon by many ultra conservative Pakistanis.