Perspective: Pakistan and Religious diversity: a lost cause?

Perspective: Pakistan and Religious diversity: a lost cause? | Fizza Ali

“You are free; you are free to go to your mosques or any other place of worship in this state of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the state.”

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By Fizza Ali | May 9, 2018

Recently, the news of the renaming of Professor Abdus Salam Centre for Physics at Quaid-i-Azam University as Abu al-Fath Abd-al-Rahman Mansur al-Khazini Department for Physics took the internet by storm. However, later in an official statement, the university’s senior dean Dr Wiqar Ali Shah came forward and explained how the Centre for Physics and the Department of Physics are, technically speaking, two separate entities. Dr Shah further stated that “The Centre is an autonomous body affiliated with QAU, while the Department of Physics is part of QAU”.

And hence, it was clarified by the university that the resolution passed by the National Assembly actually demanded the Department of Physics be renamed and not it’s Centre. Previously, QAU Centre for Physics, which was named after the country’s theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate Dr Abdus Salam, has been a subject of constant protest campaigns that were led by Capt Safdar, who is also Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law, known for his anti-Ahmadia stance and has previously gone on record to criticise the decision to rename QAU’s Physics Centre after Dr Salam during Sharif’s government on the grounds that the scientist followed the Ahmadi faith.
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