First of all, Islamic republic was initiated long after Pakistan was created by British empire along with rest of its colonies by giving powers to local rulers who are now founding fathers.
Just naming Islam this Islam that does not make it Islamic, to be honest their is nothing "islamic" about Pakistan other then Muslims live here who cant even get along with each other.
Pakistan need to own Pakistan first and then talk about being custodian of Islam.
Factually incorrect. British left their colonies to their local leaders based on their ethinicity. Not based on religion.
Furtheemore what is pur national identity? Foe the argument sake if we are not muslim then why a sindhi should live with pathan who are having a totaly different ethinicty ? And why did we get separated from india in first place ? We could have been biggest nation in the world
100% agree with you, this "islamic republic" business started way after the inception of Pakistan as an independent state in 1947 due to retreat of British empire from this part of the world, there was no such thing as "islamic republic of pakistan" on 14th August 1947, it was formed only as "Pakistan" nothing more nothing less whose existence was based on the dominance of the "numbers" (majority) of indigenous Muslim inhabited areas of Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and KPK.
Hats off to this statement. If it was never meant to be islamic republic then quaid was idiot to lost millions if lifes for muslim nation ? How do u explain his speech on creation of state bank of Pakistan which clearly state islamic principles of economy to be implemented ?
And why did we create Pakistan if it is not a land for muslims of sub continent? Provines of Pakistan were never in a history functioned as a single state. They dont even understand the language of each other
First I found it amusing that Mr. "Old School" is talking of "Modern State"...... Per me, Two nation theory itself is not a modern thought but is based on medieval thinking which divide people on basis of religion, rejects acceptance of other culture/religion and shun inclusiveness.
On defence of Pakistan, policies based on modern thinking (education, health, skill-rich human capital etc) with an objective of making Pakistan a Welfare-state....can save it. Religion should be the matter of personal choice/belief and should not have any say in state's affairs (as mentioned by Late M.A.Jinnah)....we can take inspiration from Malaysia/Turkey how to retain our Islamic identity yet be a progressive state by incorporating modern state model at the centre.
Always beating drums of Islam, projecting ourselves as the most Islamic country...has not given as anything in the past and will further make our existence difficult among our countries of the world. When Saudi/UAE can change, why can't we?
Where does islam stops u from being welfare state or getting education. Infact on the contrary it was islam that introduces the concept of modern day welfare state and for your information the current democracy to which secularists hold as a bible is itself much older than islam.
Not making a welfare state and falling behind is our failure and has nothing to do with us.
My one question to all of u anti religion guys. What is the unity factor in Pakistan if not Islam. Iran is united as they r proud persian. GCC is united as they are arabs. Iraq and syria has a rich history.
If u remove islam on what basis u will ask a pathan to share his land with punjabi when ethinically they were enemies?
@mods this is not a religious discussion but debate on our national identity. So i suggest this should be allowed to continue just like any other secular discussion.
This is not about islam only but identifying the bond that is holding us togather otherwise we r 7 to 8 different ethinically diversed region and if we continue that path we are bound to disintegrate.
So its important to realize that i want to share my land resources with pathan as he is a muslim otherwise as a pathan he is unknown to me.
With regards to minorities we do have respect and care for them as per islamic principles
