
“You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or 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.”
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah gave that monumental, memorable, yet futile speech to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on August 11, 1947. (via secular-india)
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Part of the reason why Jinnah is so admired is because respected religion for the sake of respecting the creed of a people. He was one of the most secular politicians of that era and left theology to the clerics and governance to the politicians… Separation of church and state…
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#and then the country went backwards
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قائدِ اعظم محمد علی جناح کی تصویر ایک ہزار کے نوٹ پر۔
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Too bad he was the first and last decent leader of Pakistan. Look at where the country is now; the president has a fake...
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