Jinnah’s Moth-eaten Pakistan
By Daily Excelsior – 23/03/2022 B D Sharma Pakistan came into being on 14th August, 1947 on partition of the Indian subcontinent but it celebrates its national day on 23rd […]
Jhirk, the Aga Khan and the mystery of Jinnah’s birthplace
Jhirk, the Aga Khan and the mystery of Jinnah’s birthplace Local lore suggests Jinnah was born in Jhirk in 1876, at around the same time that the first Aga Khan […]
Islam was not born on 14 August 1947
OP-ED Yasser Latif Hamdani @theRealYLH APRIL 26, 2021 When Pakistan was created in 1947, it was the largest Muslim majority state in the world and the fourth largest over all. […]
Pakistan’s creation: a British conspiracy?
OP-ED Pakistan’s creation: a British conspiracy? Yasser Latif Hamdani@theRealYLH APRIL 19, 2021 A certain political scientist, a writer of 700-page ideologicalpolemic against Jinnah trying unsuccessfully to disprove Ayesha Jalal’s thesis […]
Op-Ed: Ahmadis and Jinnah
Yasser Latif Hamdani@theRealYLH May 4, 2020 DAILY TIMES For the past few weeks one has noticed a spike in hatred against the tiny Ahmadi community in Pakistan. Ahmadis it must […]
The fate of Pakistani Ahmadis: Implications of Anti-Ahmadiyya Ordinance 1984
Busharat Elahi Jamil August 8, 2019 “We stand by our declarations that members of every community will be treated as citizens of Pakistan with equal rights and privileges and […]
Pakistan will have no place on the global stage unless it learns from the Asia Bibi blasphemy case
The white stripe in Pakistan’s national flag is meant to represent the space for minorities in the country. Many gave forgotten this founding principle Parveen Akhtar @DrParveenAkhtar The Independent […]
Jinnah’s Pakistan is finally dead
Op-Ed Taliban Khan has now reignited the issue of Khatm-e-Nabuwat. This is a door that should have been kept closed Yasser Latif Hamdani @theRealYLH July 9, 2018 Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam was a […]
Jinnah’s Daughter Yearned Father’s Vision For Pakistan
Kashif N Chaudhry, Contributor Physician, Writer, Human Rights Activist 11/05/2017 Dina Wadia, the only child of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is sadly no more. Aged 98, she passed away earlier this […]
23rd March special: The resolutions after the Resolution
NADEEM F. PARACHA UPDATED MAR 24, 2017 Picture: Archive 150 The first resolve: Head of the All India Muslim League (AIML), Muhammad Ali Jinnah, speaking to party members in Lahore on March 23, 1940. Jinnah was presiding a party session in which the AIML passed a resolution that demanded the creation […]
Neo’s hate speech and PEMRA’s inaction
Jinnah refused to turn out Ahmadis from the Muslim League, and stood steadfast on the principle that anyone who called himself a Muslim is a Muslim. This is how Jinnah managed to keep Shias, Sunnis, Ahmadis, Ismailis and countless other Muslims united und By: Yasser Latif Hamdani 12-Sep-16 Pakistan Electronic […]
Jinnah’s vision
Jinnah’s vision EDITORIAL — DAWN.COM 22 COMMENTS The frequent projection of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s Aug 11 address to the Constituent Assembly creates an impression that this is the Quaid’s only speech that gives us his vision of Pakistan. On the contrary, throughout his political career, Jinnah made it repeatedly […]
Jinnah impolite, said Sher-e-Bangla
Source: The Daily Star. By Syed Badrul Ahsan Mohammad Ali Jinnah visited East Pakistan from March 19 to March 28, 1948. The visit was a disaster, seeing that instead of reassuring the Bangla-speaking people of his country on the language issue he ended up making them angrier than they were […]
With love for Jinnah- Ten Reasons why Ahmadi Muslims Will always love Pakistan
The Muslims Times by Abdul Alim 1. A vast majority of Ahmadi Muslims living across the world are still Pakistani in origin. Loving your homeland is a part of Ahmadiyya Muslim faith. Imam of Ahmadiyya Muslims continues ask the community to pray and fast especially for their homeland 2. With […]
How Muslim League lost Gurdaspur (Qadian) Despite Jinnah’s and Sir Zafarullah’s efforts?
By Patrick French in Liberty or Death(excerpts) French writes: Given that Amritsar could not become part of Pakistan, the adjoining district of Gurdapur (which was only 51 per cent Muslim) should […]
The defining moment
Daily Times: Mohammad Ahmad. Jinnah’s Pakistan was to be a land free of prejudice. Discrimination was to be the forbidden word in Jinnah’s Pakistan. Jinnah’s Pakistan was not created for the Taliban. The destiny of Pakistan will not be inked by India, the US or China. The future of Pakistan […]
Jinnah, Imran and Shezan
Dailytimes: Opinion: Yasir Latif Hamdani: To Jinnah, the question of representation of the legitimate interests of the Muslim minority in United India was a political question and not a religious one. […]
“You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the State”
I cannot emphasize it too much. We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities, the Hindu community and the Muslim community, because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and so on, and […]