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Jinnah vs Democracy
August 11, 1947 address of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, to the members of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly,
to the status of a national covenant. That it has taken more than 50
years to reach such a conclusion is indeed most intriguing. In that
address the Quaid said, among other things, the following:
"You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go
to your mosques or to 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... We are starting with
this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens
of one State... I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal
and you will find that in due course Hindus would cease to be Hindus and
Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because
that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political
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