End of Jinnah’s Pakistan? a Myth?

Jinnah pitched in for Pakistan  not because of  any visions of Islamic ideology,but because of differences with Nehru over the spoils of post partition India and Gandhji could not reconcile  them.The equation of Sardar Patel has complicated the issue.
If Jinnah were to run the country as its head, it could not be in India,
He played the Muslim card effectively and Gandhi and Nehru fell for it.
Unfortunately in India and Pakistan ,Gandhi and Jinnah are considered above criticism and any comment on them is considered sacrilegious.
There is this myth about Pakistan and this is the reason for Pakistan’s crisis of identity and acrimony between India and Pakistan.
There seems to be three  systems of thought in Pakistan,fundamentalists,extremists and the mute right(not Right) thinking people.
Unless the last-named assert themselves by moving in to 21 Century,Pakistan shall cease to be.

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In a larger sense, however, the significance of Taseer’s murder lies in what it says about the future of nuclear-armed Pakistan. Carved out of the Muslim-majority provinces of British India in 1947, the country has long struggled to reconcile two competing visions of its reason for being. Is Pakistan, as imagined by its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah—a London-trained barrister with a fondness for pork sandwiches and two-toned spats—merely a homeland for the subcontinent’s Muslims? Or was it created to echo the far more ambitious formulation of Abul Ala Maududi, the radical Islamist ideologue born roughly a generation after Jinnah: for the enforcement of Islamic Shariah law upon every aspect of society and the state?

Taseer broadly belonged to Jinnah’s Pakistan. He was educated as a chartered accountant in England, founded a successful telecom company, and published the country’s leading liberal newspaper in English. (Though, as the son of a famous Urdu poet, Taseer was perhaps more culturally authentic than his nation’s founder.) By contrast, Taseer’s killer, a 26-year-old named Mumtaz Qadri, symbolizes Maududi’s vision. In photographs, he’s bearded and moustache-less, in the manner prescribed by fundamentalist Islam. That Mr. Qadri could defy South Asia’s usually rigid codes of hierarchy by murdering someone far above his station jibes with the contempt radical Islamists often feel for traditional elites. According to press reports, Mr. Qadri showed no remorse for the murder.

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