Purifying the land of the pure

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A frightening story of how legislative issues engaged dogmatism in Pakistan’:

Asma Jahangir About the book: ‘[Y]ou will locate that in course of time Hindus would stop to be

Hindus and Muslims would stop to be Muslims, not in the strict sense, since that is the individual

confidence of every person, except in the political sense as residents of the State.’ – Muhammad Ali

Jinnah Pakistan was cut out in 1947 to secure the subcontinent’s biggest strict minority. It was

imagined as a Muslim-lion’s share, though common, State that would set a model for India on the

most proficient method to treat its minorities. In any case, not long after Independence, even as

Quaid-e-Azam Jinnah lay passing on, political, strict and social pioneers announced it an Islamic

State, scrounging up a public account of Islamic victimhood. The outcome is a consistently

escalating bias against strict minorities with an end goal to make Pakistan ‘cleaner’ in ‘Islamic’ terms.