''Moth-eaten" is not the way you would expect the founding father of a new nation to describe his creation. But that is how founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah charac- terized his newborn state of Pakistan in 1947. He was right. The immense British Raj - a larger, more peaceful and better administered incarnation of India than any of the Hindu or Muslim empires preceding it - was hastily partitioned into two separate but far from equal new countries.
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The media - print and electronic - are abuzz about the growing lack of tolerance in Pakistan. The culprits behind the targeted killings and mass murders are often ardent followers of their faith and could shame ordinary Muslims with their knowledge of the scriptures. A would-be suicide bomber, arrested before he could meet his maker, argued that all Pakistanis who are not fighting alongside the fanatics are heretics who deserve death. The death sentence handed out to Aasia Bibi for adhering to her Christian beliefs reveals yet another facet of intolerance in Pakistan's civil life. Pakistan's foundation was based on an ideology of discrimination against other faiths, with the founding fathers vociferously propagating the idea that Muslims could not and would not do well in a country wher...
The cream of the crop received officer education at Sandhurst in England, but training was ongoing in the garrisons and bases throughout British India. [...] 1939 the officer corps was relatively small and tight-knit, but the need for a much larger force in World War II required its quick expansion, which resulted in the changing ratio of British to Indian officers from 10:1 to 4.1:1.* Most importantly, the British instilled a military ethos that put high value on professional competence, and the officer corps of both independent Pakistan and India has kept these traditions alive.
BRUSSELS, August 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The European Organization for Pakistani Minorities(EOPM) organized today a peaceful prayer protest in front of the Pakistani Embassy in Belgium to remember and pray for the innocent people of the minority communities in Pakistan who are denied their basic human rights. The demonstration highlighted several recent incidents targeting the minorities of Pakistan and EOPM demanded immediate action to ensure security of the lives, property and honour of these patriotic Pakistanis belonging to religions other than Islam. A representative of the EOPM said "What prompted us to hold this prayer and peaceful protest was the news of an ugly crime, committed by a Muslim Doctor against a poor Christian girl on 14 July, 2010. Dr Jabar threw Miss Magdalene fro...
WASHINGTON -- The impossible occurred last month in South Asia. A conservative Indian nationalist leader praised the founder of Pakistan. On a visit to Pakistan designed to improve relations between the two nations, Lal Krishna Advani, the leader of the Hindu- nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), called Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, a "great, secular leader" who "created history.
On behalf of the American people, I send my best wishes to the people of Pakistan and all those of Pakistani descent here in America and around the world observing Pakistan National Day. Seventy years ago, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and those of the independence generation declared their dreams of self-determination and democracy.
STRASBOURG, France, January 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- "The EU Parliament's vice-chair for foreign affairs, Fiorello Provera, has condemned the escalation of religious hostility towards Pakistan's Christian minority in the wake of the sentencing to death of Asia Bibi on blasphemy charges, and the recent killing of Punjab's governor Salman Taseer. Christians make up approximately 2% of Pakistan's population, but in recent years many have been victims of intimidation and harassment as churches have been attacked., and in 2009, six Christians were burned alive after Muslim extremists attacked their homes in the Punjabi village of Gojra. Since the death of governor Taseer, many Christians have reported feeling isolated and vulnerable to fresh attacks. This is a sad situation given the country...
...After three years on the Los Angeles campus in fall 1964 I went to Pakistan as Project ...John Courtney Murray's American Proposition, fifty years later,"...
Over the past two years, Pakistan's culture of denial had produced a surreal nuclear theater of the absurd. Any suggestion Pakistan's nuclear establishment was less than a paragon of nonproliferation probity was deemed beyond contempt. The father of the country's nuclear arsenal, Abdul Qadeer Khan (AQK), had been elevated to the Islamic equivalent of sainthood. After the Prophet and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of the Pakistani state 55 years ago, AQK was a nonpareil. AQK and his team of nuclear scientists are devout Muslim fundamentalists. But this, in turn, led AQK to pursue a hidden agenda. Even though a Sunni, AQK was nonetheless awed by the politico-religious revolution in Iran in 1979. The late President Zia ul-Haq who ruled Pakistan as a military dictator for 11 years (1977-8...
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