Pakistan: Secularism or Islam?
The secular people of Pakistan claim that Pakistan should be a secular state, because Quaid-e-Azam in his address (August 11, 1947) to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan presented the blueprint of a secular state. If, for a while, we ignore what Quaid said on the issue, before August 11, 1947 and after it, and accept the notion that Quaid really presented the idea of a secular state in his address, even then the claim of the secular people turns out to be a mere propaganda, based on distorted account of history. Quaid’s so-called view of secular Pakistan was infact the opinion of an individual. While the people of Pakistan, through their representatives in the first Constituent Assembly, rejected this view of an individual, by passing Objectives Resolution on March 12, 1949, through overwhelming majority. Through this resolution, the people of Pakistan approved Allama Iqbal’s view regarding the political scheme of the new country. In his letter to Quaid, while elaborating the need fo