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Socialism is left wing ideology
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Socialism is left wing ideology
I wonder if he were still alive, how Mr.Jinnah would feel about the fact that while across the border his counterpart Nehru’s descendants including even the incompetent ones have ruled the country or are still major power players in Indian politics.
I wonder if he were still alive, how Mr.Jinnah would feel about the fact that while across the border his counterpart Nehru’s descendants including even the incompetent ones have ruled the country or are still major power players in Indian politics.
On the other hand his family on the daughter’s side is one of the wealthiest families in India that employs thousands of Indians including Hindus and Indian Muslims.
His sister who was his close confidant was marginalized and don’t want to get into conspiracy theories of how she died but I guess marginalized is a pretty obvious fact.
Without even getting into political,economic debate wonder on a personal note if he would be too stoked about this. Honest question.
Hell no!
Why would he, he is adored by more than 200 millions people, he built a nation.out.of nothing
I don't any achievement in life can be comparable to what he did - he is in the elite group of human beings and his name will be remembered for centries.to come
That's the gravity of what he achoved
My post was not disputing Jinnah’s accomplishments. How have Pakistanis thanked him was my question?
His Family I mentioned above.
His Mother tounge of Gujarati is a non entity
He was actually a descendant from Hindus, however most Pakistanis see themselves as Arabs and Turks. So by marginalizing other ethnicities doesn’t help his legacy either. I mean by common definition if my understanding of the word is correct, isn’t he a Muhajir?
Didnt the Nobel Prize winner get driven away from Pakistan as well? I am sure you and a few others respect him too. How does that help.
My question is how are Pakistanis thanking Jinnah? In India no one thanks Nehru, in fact people criticize him or defend him that’s about it. So how are they expressing gratitude is my question.
Jinnah advocated Urdu as the offical language of Pakistan and not Gujarti.His Mother tounge of Gujarati is a non entity
He was actually a descendant from Hindus, however most Pakistanis see themselves as Arabs and Turks. So by marginalizing other ethnicities doesn’t help his legacy either. I mean by common definition if my understanding of the word is correct, isn’t he a Muhajir?
My question is how are Pakistanis thanking Jinnah? In India no one thanks Nehru, in fact people criticize him or defend him that’s about it. So how are they expressing gratitude is my question.
On the other hand his family on the daughter’s side is one of the wealthiest families in India that employs thousands of Indians including Hindus and Indian Muslims.
On 16 August 1947 Mr. Mohd. Ali Jinnah called for direct action declaring that he would accept either a divided India or destroyed India. This spaked riots in Kolkata and became precursor to partition riots.
How does Pakistani's view his role in riots. Did he ever regretted his action
Was killing of thousands necessary for partition which was in any case authorized by British??
Looking at Pakistan, Indians should be thankful to Jinnah for taking out all religious nuts from India.
All of your PTI, PML would be considered right wing in India. Pakistan never had a party like Congress that is ultra left.
Nobel prize is a geopolitical meme. It shouldn't be taken seriously.
Pakistanis are collectively ashamed whenever they compare vision of Jinnah/Iqbal to actual Pakistan (at least, in my opinion, they should be).
That said, our main issue is internal corruption, which at least is past 10 years people are starting to talk about.
Thanks to Imran Khan.
In 2021s Pakistanis are starting to openly question corrupt politicians, military, bureaucrats and Mullahs. This is a massive achievement. I believe it will have an exponential growth effect in upcoming years. Fingers crossed.
Oh, and we are infinitely better than likes of India or Israel who are murdering Kashmiris and Palestinians on a daily basis. No blood on our hands.
Pakistan was created by liberal Muslims. The hard line religious groups opposed the creation of the state, and called Jinnah a Kaafir.
Why not say it openly, that Indians should be thankful to Jinnah as their are now less Muslims in India. Or do you somehow believe that Indian Muslims are more liberal than Pakistani ones?
The biggest hater of the very idea of Pakistan (perhaps even more than Congress) was
Deoband a leading muslim fiqh for SC muslims...
That daughter was disowned. Neither she or her descendants are part of his family.
My post was not disputing Jinnah’s accomplishments. How have Pakistanis thanked him was my question?
His Family I mentioned above.
His Mother tounge of Gujarati is a non entity
He was actually a descendant from Hindus, however most Pakistanis see themselves as Arabs and Turks. So by marginalizing other ethnicities doesn’t help his legacy either. I mean by common definition if my understanding of the word is correct, isn’t he a Muhajir?
Didnt the Nobel Prize winner get driven away from Pakistan as well? I am sure you and a few others respect him too. How does that help.
My question is how are Pakistanis thanking Jinnah? In India no one thanks Nehru, in fact people criticize him or defend him that’s about it. So how are they expressing gratitude is my question.
He was actually a descendant from Hindus, however most Pakistanis see themselves as Arabs and Turks. So by marginalizing other ethnicities doesn’t help his legacy either. I mean by common definition if my understanding of the word is correct, isn’t he a Muhajir?
When the diaries and letters of Lord and Lady Mountbatten were “saved for the nation” in 2010, it should have created an invaluable public resource. Instead, a writer has spent four years and £250,000 of his own money in an ongoing – but still frustrated – attempt to force Southampton University and the Cabinet Office to allow the public to view them.
The university bought the Broadlands archive, named after the Mountbattens’ Grade I-listed house, for £2.8m in 2010, attracting funding by stating it would “preserve the collection in its entirety for future generations to use and enjoy” and “ensure public access”.
However, Andrew Lownie, the author of a 2019 book about the Mountbattens, has been fighting unsuccessfully since 2017 for their correspondence and diaries to be released. This is despite freedom of information (FoI) requests and an order by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) that the material be released.
The university has said it was directed by the government to keep a small number of the papers private until told otherwise. “They’ve spent hundreds of thousands of pounds and brought in two top QCs, and this fight has been going on for four years so I can only imagine there’s something [interesting] there otherwise why would they bother?” said Lownie.
Lownie began his quest when researching his book. Although it has since been published, he is determined to continue the fight, and is now trying to raise £50,000 on Crowdjustice to help fight an appeal by the university and Cabinet Office against the ICO decision.
The academic believes the documents could shed light on the royal family and the independence and partition of India. Lord Mountbatten was the uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, confidant of Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) and the last Viceroy of India, while Lady Mountbatten had a close relationship with the Indian leader Jawarhalal Nehru.
He said: “I just feel what they’re doing is wrong … And they just think they’ve got deeper pockets and they can just see me off. And this is why I’m hoping I can at least shame them and maybe we can get the release of these diaries, which I think are important sources for any 20th-century story but also we can make the point that this is not the way that governments and universities should behave … This is opening up, what potentially could be another Chips Channon diaries [which contained scandalous revelations about the powerful in interwar London] for other historians.”
The university bought the archive, which also included the papers of the Victorian prime minister Lord Palmerston, with the help of grants of almost £2m from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £100,000 from Hampshire county council. It was also subject to the “acceptance in lieu” scheme under which art works and archives are accepted by the nation in lieu of inheritance tax, taking the total cost to about £4.5m, according to Lownie.
When he found omissions relating to the Mountbattens from the university’s inventory, he made an FoI request but the university refused to release the materials, citing a Cabinet Office power of veto under a ministerial direction. After he complained to the ICO, it contacted the university, which failed to respond for 12 months, prompting the commissioner, in the interim, to issue what it described as “unprecedented” contempt of court proceedings against the university because it “continues to flout its statutory duty”.
After the university responded, in December 2019, the ICO ordered it to publish the Mountbattens’ diaries and letters. An appeal against that decision is due to be heard at the first tier tribunal in November.
At a case management hearing in March, lawyers for the university said it intended to release Mountbattens’ diaries up to 1934 in early April. But this was only done on Thursday – and some of the online links appeared to be broken – the day after the Guardian approached the Cabinet Office and university about the matter.
A University of Southampton spokesperson said: “As part of the allocation of the archives in August 2011, the university was directed to keep a small number of the papers closed until we were otherwise advised. The university has always aimed to make public as much of the collection as is possible whilst balancing all its legal obligations.’’
The Cabinet Office said it would not comment while proceedings were ongoing.
Was just going through the twitter about Palestine-Israel situation and was both annoyed and baffled to see majority of Indians calling Netanyahu as some sort of savior of humanity and that India needs a PM like him and making tag team of Modi and Netanyahu and whatnot.
It was pukeworthy to read. It wasn't that those Indians hated Palestine or Pakistan, they just consider all Muslims to be terrorists. So yes, I definitely thank Jinnah for the country even though we(every pakitsani) have been giving our best to destroy it.
M. A. Jinnah was an intelligent and pragmatic man. He was not handicapped by religious beliefs. He fought for the Muslims of subcontinent but his fight was political rather than religious.
Remember - he viewed namaz as a “good exercise” and had bacon for breakfast and wine at dinner. When he left his Bombay home, he requested Nehru not to lend it to any Muslim tenant because they would not appreciate the western architecture.
He died 4 months after the establishment of Israel. I am certain that in his personal capacity, in his own personal space, he would have been of the view that Pakistan should developed ties with Israel because it would benefit Pakistan.
Unfortunately, the masses in Pakistani do not have the intelligence and the perception to think beyond the spectrum of religion. They are handicapped by their beliefs and they do not know what is good for them and what is not.
M. A. Jinnah was an intelligent and pragmatic man. He was not handicapped by religious beliefs. He fought for the Muslims of subcontinent but his fight was political rather than religious.
Remember - he viewed namaz as a “good exercise” and had bacon for breakfast and wine at dinner. When he left his Bombay home, he requested Nehru not to lend it to any Muslim tenant because they would not appreciate the western architecture.
He died 4 months after the establishment of Israel. I am certain that in his personal capacity, in his own personal space, he would have been of the view that Pakistan should developed ties with Israel because it would benefit Pakistan.
Unfortunately, the masses in Pakistani do not have the intelligence and the perception to think beyond the spectrum of religion. They are handicapped by their beliefs and they do not know what is good for them and what is not.
You really don’t know Jinnah, do you?M. A. Jinnah was an intelligent and pragmatic man. He was not handicapped by religious beliefs. He fought for the Muslims of subcontinent but his fight was political rather than religious.
Remember - he viewed namaz as a “good exercise” and had bacon for breakfast and wine at dinner. When he left his Bombay home, he requested Nehru not to lend it to any Muslim tenant because they would not appreciate the western architecture.
He died 4 months after the establishment of Israel. I am certain that in his personal capacity, in his own personal space, he would have been of the view that Pakistan should developed ties with Israel because it would benefit Pakistan.
Unfortunately, the masses in Pakistani do not have the intelligence and the perception to think beyond the spectrum of religion. They are handicapped by their beliefs and they do not know what is good for them and what is not.
Some truth with lots of misconceptions!!
First of all, regarding Israel, he launched ZafarUllah Khan in UN!!! He and his legendary Palestine advocacy in UN is no secret.
Furthermore, his record shows that even though he might not have been a practicing Muslim, he had great sensitivity to and respect for Muslim culture, norms, concerns etc. like
1. Converting his wife to Islam before marrying,
2. breaking ties with his daughter for marrying a non-muslim,
3. representing ghazi ilm din shaheed RA,
4. Making an effort to wear sherwani and jinnah cap,
5. embracing Pakistan ka matlab kya chant,
6. stating Quran is our constitution,
7.declaring Pakistan to be a Lab of Islamic laws,
8. appointing first and only official Grand Mufti of the state,
9.his iconic figure of praying eid prayer as per hanafi way while we know he was ismaili
10. His other numerous statements and quotes etc etc...
Even if you consider the word Pakistan and its context then then is no uncertainty that it was a country founded on and for religion.
Also, I believe that harping about Quaid’s vision is completely useless as the thing that really matters is what was pitched to Indian Muslims to convince and mobilise them for the cause of Pakistan. We all know it was captured through slogans like Pakistan ka matlab kya chant. Even if one can definitively prove that ML leadership was privately secular, then at best it proves them hypocrites!
Though I believe the guy was as confused as most Muslims today. His statements and comments might seem totally contradictory today to some but I believe his VOA interview and 11th August speech in conjunction and context with his other statements can only be interpreted as
1. Hypocrisy and cheating Muslim population. ( I really don’t believe this. The guy’s character by all accounts is very strong and honest).
2. Confusion because honestly whole Muslim world is confused about its identity for last 2 centuries. Infact if you consider all of his statements including 11th August and Pakistan not being a theocracy, it is exactly the vision of today’s Jamat e Islami, Ikhwan ul Muslimoon, Turkey’s Erdogan etc...
And despite all this, liberals today also conveniently forget about the role of Allama Iqbal RA. He was claimed to be Mussawer e Pakistan. Anyone who has read kulyat e Iqbal will tell you that had Iqbal RA been alive today, he would have been most probably handed over to US for Gitmo. Iqbal RA is the most effective proponent of pan Islamic revival thought that led to all these Islamic movements that we see everywhere today.
You really don’t know Jinnah, do you?
When a man in public is a legend, he begins to play the part even in private, despite the fact that it may be conflicting with his traits.
Whether it succeeds or fails, Pakistan was the First Nation-state in history to be founded on the basis of religion. There have been only two in history and coincidentally, they came EXACTLY nine months apart. (The other great coincidence of Jinnah’s life? His daughter was born on the night of August 14th and the morning of August 15th, 28 years to the day of the founding of both Pakistan and India.)
What is the identity that binds Pakistan? What is its full name? What is its flag emblem? What is its basis of founding, intellectually and practically? You know the answer.
Mr. Jinnah was a smarter man than you or I. I’m sure he knew what it stood for and what it promised (Equality for all, YES. But, the ideology of one particular religion.)
You have provided a very important and intelligent summary. A lot of what you used is the uncomfortable truth but you will receive a lot of backlash from “patriotic” Pakistanis who are uncomfortable with the conflict between Jinnah’s secular personality and his political image of the savior of the Muslims of the subcontinent.
It is important to understand that a lot of Jinnah’s action such as severing ties with Dina Wadia, wearing eastern attire in political rallies, promoting the teaching of Quran and sunnah etc. were largely due to the fact that he had to maintain and sustain a public image as the leader of the Pakistan movement.
Otherwise, an Anglophile like him who had no problem drinking alcohol and eating pork would have no qualms about letting his daughter marry a non-Muslim.
That is why I believe that in his personal capacity, Jinnah would have admired the success of Israel in terms of the rapid development that they have achieved and would have agreed that recognizing Israel and establishing diplomatic relations would benefit Pakistan on the economic front.
However, of course, the lack of intelligence among the masses and the fact that they are held ransom by their religious beliefs would have prevented him from officially recognized Israel. That is why I said that in his personal capacity, in his safety space, he would have respected Israel.
Jinnah’s job was to create Pakistan. It is a certainty now but it was only a far-away idea at the time.Unless all three of us (Jinnah, you, me) are made to take an IQ Test in a controlled, contrived environment, our relative intelligence cannot be debated on. Maybe Jinnah was smarter than me, maybe you are smarter than me. We will never know.
What you do with your intelligence and how you utilize it is hugely influenced by where and when you are born and in what environment.
Instead of being born in Karachi in 1876, if Jinnah was born in Tel Aviv in 1976 and had joined the IDF, he would have participated in the oppression of Palestinian Muslims instead of fighting for the rights of subcontinent Muslims.
Albert Einstein, arguably the greatest physicist of all time, would not have been able to spell physics if he was born in some remote African tribe.
Jinnah was probably an intelligent man, but a lot of his intelligence was hampered by the religiosity of the Muslim leaders around him and later on, the desperation of the British to leave India in haste after WWII.
We do not want to accept this, but the reality is that his vision of Pakistan and his ideology failed. It failed with the liberation of East Pakistan. This fragmented, broken Pakistan is not what Jinnah had in mind on August 14, 1947.
Jinnah’s environment forced him to succumb to idealism. He failed to realize that even Muslims cannot live together in peace and harmony as long as there are sociocultural differences.
He failed to realize that religion is not a strong enough binding force to overcome sociocultural differences, that is why East Pakistan was liberated.
West Pakistan looked down on the East, saw them as lesser people who were dark and weak, and disrespected their language because it is similar to Sanskrit.
In fact, Jinnah himself sowed the seeds of this discrimination when he went to Dhaka in 1948 and declared Urdu as the state language of East Pakistan. It was a grave political, diplomatic error that an intelligent and astute politician would not have committed.
The only saving grace for Jinnah is that he did not live long enough to witness the demise of his vision and ideology and the failure of his Two Nation Theory.
I also suspect that he would not be to pleased to see what the leaders of Pakistan, the defenders of the Pakistan ideology, did to his sister.
Furthermore, his record shows that even though he might not have been a practicing Muslim, he had great sensitivity to and respect for Muslim culture, norms, concerns etc.
Even if you consider the word Pakistan and its context then then is no uncertainty that it was a country founded on and for religion.
Also, I believe that harping about Quaid’s vision is completely useless as the thing that really matters is what was pitched to Indian Muslims to convince and mobilise them for the cause of Pakistan. We all know it was captured through slogans like Pakistan ka matlab kya chant. Even if one can definitively prove that ML leadership was privately secular, then at best it proves them hypocrites!
In whose hands shall the administration and the Empire of India rest? Now, suppose that all English, and the whole English army, were to leave India, taking with them all their cannon and their splendid weapons and everything, then who would be rulers of India? Is it possible that under these circumstances two nations—the Mahomedans and the Hindus—could sit on the same throne and remain equal in power? Most certainly not. It is necessary that one of them should conquer the other and thrust it down. To hope that both could remain equal is to desire the impossible and the inconceivable.
Modi definitely changed people's perspective on partition...
My grandfather moved from some random village in UP and he never liked the concept of partition and cursed Me. Jinnah for most of his life for all the suffering he believed he caused to him
To understand his POV you need to understand his personal trauma
His reasoning was that they were a rich land owning class in UP and because of partition they were pushed out because of violence
-Most of his family died while trying to reach the punjab border, he was one of the few survivors
- They were dead broke in Pakistan and received basically nothing
- His health was always unstable throughout his life because during partition he was forced to eat some really muddied water rice and other equally disgusting things to survive
So for him Mr. Jinnah was a war criminal of sort who took everything away from and millions of others
But later in Life during Modi years he realized that Mr.Jinnah was right
It may not be perfect but we have the freedom to practice our religious liberties to the fullest
But saying that I am sure some people from both sides who suffered in partition would hold him personally responsible for all the trauma they suffered
But know without the baggage of partition we are realizing his greatness
Not so fast.Easy to say such things sitting in Lahore, Dubai, Toronto, California etc.
Dare you to spend a week in some of the Muslim infested cities in Bengal or UP and then talk to me. I will see how much patience and love you have for your so called fellow Muslims who have destroyed our country with their jahalat, nafrat and beghairatpana.
Perspective is everything.
Bangladeshi, Rohingya and Jamali Muslims of UP are a curse to any city or nation.
If you love Jinnah so much please take a hundred million more of them Muslims from our country and do whatever romance you wanna do with them.
Not so fast.
We have our share of uncouth bihari infestations in karachi. These bhayas already ruined a once great culture.
Surely we can't be expected to accept more of the same thugs.
AmeenMay Allah bless our Quaid with jannat.