Today by virtue of our biased state-management Pakistan has been rendered into a highly polarised society rendering life short, brutish and nasty for Shias, Ahmadis and other minorities.
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By Wajid Shamsul Hasan | July 2, 2017
In his August 11, 1947 speech while laying down the fundaments of Pakistan’s ideological moorings, our founding father Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah clearly warned us of some of the most lethal evils, if not nipped in the bud, would cause us irretrievable damage — sooner than later. How true when we look at the tragic incidents such as Parachinar and Quetta where Shias were singled out by the Tafkiri terrorists for a bloodbath just on the eve of Eidul Fitr.
This is not for the first time. A country that had comparative sectarian and communal peace for more than three decades owes it all to military dictator General Ziaul Haq who started the rapid process of converting Pakistan into Tafkiri state from a liberal, secular and progressive democratic country that was the vision of the Quaid. Having not even iota of popular legitimacy, he blatantly resorted to divide and rule.
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