JINNAH'S VISION: AN INDIVISIBLE PAKISTANI NATIONHOOD

Sharif al Mujahid ()
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Sharif al Mujahid: HEC Distinguished National Professor, Co-editor of UNESCO's History of Humanity

IBT Journal of Business Studies (JBS), 2009, vol. 5, issue 1, 57-64

Abstract: QuaidiAzam Muhamamd Ali Jinnahs vision envisaged a democratic country based on the tenets of Islam.His invocation of Islam was not to arouse clerics to mistake it for theocracy.Jinnah earnestly thought that Islam and its idealism had taught Indian Muslims the virtues of democracy as it envisioned equality, justice and fairplay to everybody.In his broadcast to the USA in Feb 1948 he had hoped that the Pakistan constitution would be of "a democratic type embodying the essential principles of Islam".He reaffirmed emphatically that Pakistan was not going to be a theocratic state to be ruled by priests with a divine mission.Even the Objectives Resolution 1949, moved by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, recognized not the followers of a particular faith, but the people all the people irrespective of whatever faith they may follow.It is a pity that the Objectives Resolution has been interpreted quite differently to suit vested interest.

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Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.46745/ilma.ibtjbs.2009.51.6

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