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August 14: A Day to Pay Tribute to Jinnah

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AUGUST 13, 2022

Pakistani nation is about to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its independence won by Muhammad Ali

Jinnah. He converted the dream of a separate homeland for Muslims into a political reality against un-
surmountable odds and staunch resistance to the idea both by British government and the Indian
Congress. The creation of Pakistan on ideological basis was arguably an unprecedented event of the
twentieth century made possible by the indomitable personality of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a
constitutionalist, a democrat to the core of his heart and a believer and advocate of equal rights for
minorities, as also reflected in the Pakistan resolution.

The independence movement for the creation of Pakistan was arguably the shortest ever struggle to throw
off the yolk of subservience to a colonial power. What made that miracle to happen owes it to the fact that
despite a thousand years co-existence with Hindus in the sub-continent, the Muslims ever since their
arrival in India either as conquerors or traders, maintained their distinct identity culturally and politically and
were already a homogenous nationality in India before the movement to end the colonial rule in India
started.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was initially a staunch supporter of Hindu-Muslim Unity and believed in peaceful co-
existence with Hindus under a constitutional arrangement that protected the political rights of the Muslims
and gave them their due share in governance—after his disillusionment with the designs of the Hindus
who only wanted India for Hindus and did not acknowledge the Muslims as a separate entity—used this
factor to rally round the Muslims to the cause of an independent state for the Muslims. The process of his
transformation into a supporter and leader of the independence movement began with his statement in
1937 that asserted “India is not a national state. India is not a state but a sub-continent composed of
nationalities, the two major nations being Hindus and Muslims whose culture, art, architecture, names and
nomenclature, sense of value and proportion, laws and jurisprudence, social moral codes, customs and
calendar, history and traditions, aptitudes and ambitions, outlook on life and of life are fundamentally
different. By all cannons of international law we are a nation” The vision given by Allama Muhammad Iqbal
provided a clear direction to this thought process. Pakistan Resolution was finally adopted on 23rd March
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1940 and within a span of seven years Pakistan became a reality on 14th August 1947.

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The independence movement for the creation of Pakistan was arguably
the shortest ever struggle to throw off the yolk of subservience to a Weekly inflation decreases
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The Ideology of Pakistan has its roots deep in the history. The history of South Asia is largely a history of
more deaths, rain and
rivalry and conflict between the Hindus and Muslims of the region. Both communities have been living
humanitarian disaster
together in the same area since the early 8th century. Yet, the two failed to develop harmonious relations.
In the beginning, one could find the Muslims and Hindus struggling for supremacy in the battlefield. Wars
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between Muhammad Bin Qasim and Raja Dahir in 712, Mahmud of Ghazni and Jaypal, Muhammad Ghuri
and Prithvi Raj, Babur and Rana Sanga and Aurangzeb and Shivaji are cases in point.
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With the advent of the British rule in India in 1858, Hindu-Muslim relations entered a new phase. The Jalsa’ at Lahore Hockey
Stadium today
British brought with them a new political philosophy commonly known as ‘territorial nationalism’. Before the
coming of the British, there was no concept of a ‘nation’ in South Asia and the region had never been a Independence Day: PIA
single political unit. The British attempt to weld the two communities in to a ‘nation’ also failed. The British announces 14% discount on
concept of a nation did not fit the religious-social system of South Asia. Similarly, the British political domestic flights
system did not suite the political culture of South Asia. The British political system, commonly known as
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‘democracy’, gave majority the right to rule.
slightly: stands at 37.69pc

But unlike Britain, the basis of majority and minority in South Asia was not political but religious and ethnic.
The attempt to enforce the British political model in South Asia, instead of solving the political problems, Balochistan dealing with
only served to make the situation more complex. The Hindus supported the idea while it was strongly more deaths, rain and

opposed by the Muslims. The Muslims knew that implementation of the new order would mean the end of humanitarian disaster

their separate identity and endless rule of the Hindu majority in the name of nationalism and democracy.
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The Muslims refused to go the British way. They claimed that they were a separate nation and the basis of
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their nation was the common religion. They refused to accept a political system that would reduce them to seeks all bank accounts
a permanent minority. They first demanded separate electorates and later a separate state. Religious and details
cultural differences between Hindus and Muslims increased due to political rivalry under the British rule.
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stand vindicated in demanding a separate homeland for themselves by the rise into power of BJP, a party
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inebriated by the RSS ideology of Hindutva which believes in India for Hindus and in following that creed
has made the lives of the minorities miserable, particularly Muslims through the promulgation of National
register of Citizenship in Assam and then enactment of Citizenship Amendment Act. The Quaid and the Govt intervention needed to
Muslims rightly entertained this fear of Hindu domination. The two nation theory contrary to the contention salvage dwindling exports:
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Quaid-i-Azam not only created Pakistan but also gave a vision about the course it was destined to follow brands of the year awards
after independence. He epitomized his vision in a Broadcast talk on Pakistan to the people of United
States in February 1948 in these words “The constitution of Pakistan has yet to be framed. I do not know
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embodying the essential principles of Islam. Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy. It has taught
equality of men, justice and fair play to everybody. In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic WORLD
state, to be ruled by priests with divine mission. We have many non-Muslims, Hindus, Christians and
Parsis but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizen and Hungarians stage protest
will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan”. amid fuel crisis

The best tribute and homage to that great leader would be to implement his vision in letter and spirit. It
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was right time to retract our steps from the detours that we as a nation have taken. It is possible only when
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political forces in the country abandon their divisive politics and work collectively to make Pakistan an home
eternal reality enjoying a respectable place in the comity of nations.
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