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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/220px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/330px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/440px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Pakistan is not going to be a <a href="/wiki/Theocratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Theocratic">theocratic</a> State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission. We have many non-<a href="/wiki/Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> — <a href="/wiki/Hindus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindus">Hindus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Christians">Christians</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism" class="extiw" title="w:Zoroastrianism">Parsis</a> — but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same <a href="/wiki/Rights" title="Rights">rights</a> and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan. ~ <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg/220px-State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg/330px-State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg/440px-State_emblem_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="587" /></a><figcaption>Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. ~ <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Black_Hole_Outflows_From_Centaurus_A.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Black_Hole_Outflows_From_Centaurus_A.jpg/220px-Black_Hole_Outflows_From_Centaurus_A.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="223" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Black_Hole_Outflows_From_Centaurus_A.jpg/330px-Black_Hole_Outflows_From_Centaurus_A.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Black_Hole_Outflows_From_Centaurus_A.jpg/440px-Black_Hole_Outflows_From_Centaurus_A.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2669" data-file-height="2702" /></a><figcaption>I assert that Pakistan is the biggest rogue of all the rogue states of today. I assert that what is taking form there, between Islamabad and Karachi, is a <a href="/wiki/Black_hole" title="Black hole">black hole</a> compared to which <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>’s Baghdad was an obsolete weapons dump. ~ B.-H. Lévy</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/220px-Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/330px-Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/440px-Donald_Trump_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2424" data-file-height="2936" /></a><figcaption>They have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_terrorism" title="Islamic terrorism">terrorists</a> we hunt in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, with little help. No more! ~ Donald Trump</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_Advocate.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_Advocate.jpg/220px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_Advocate.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="272" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_Advocate.jpg/330px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_Advocate.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_Advocate.jpg/440px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_Advocate.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2428" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Pakistan is known for its amazing and stunning natural beauty, rich cultural heritage, and historical landmarks. From the majestic peaks of the Himalayas and Karakoram in the north, like K2 and Nanga Parbat, to the serene valleys of Hunza and Swat, the country offers breathtaking landscapes. The cultural diversity is also profound, with a mix of traditions, languages, and festivals that showcase the warmth and hospitality of its people. Historic sites like Mohenjo-Daro, Taxila, and the Badshahi Mosque add to its charm. ~ <a href="/w/index.php?title=Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Akhtar Aly Kureshy (page does not exist)">Akhtar Aly Kureshy</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_with_Hamid_Shabbir,_Haris_and_Pansota_in_LHC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_with_Hamid_Shabbir%2C_Haris_and_Pansota_in_LHC.jpg/220px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_with_Hamid_Shabbir%2C_Haris_and_Pansota_in_LHC.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_with_Hamid_Shabbir%2C_Haris_and_Pansota_in_LHC.jpg/330px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_with_Hamid_Shabbir%2C_Haris_and_Pansota_in_LHC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_with_Hamid_Shabbir%2C_Haris_and_Pansota_in_LHC.jpg/440px-Akhtar_Aly_Kureshy_with_Hamid_Shabbir%2C_Haris_and_Pansota_in_LHC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3493" data-file-height="2391" /></a><figcaption>A Galaxy of lawyers in Lahore High Court, Lahore.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TarekFatahstanding.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/TarekFatahstanding.jpg/220px-TarekFatahstanding.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="351" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/TarekFatahstanding.jpg/330px-TarekFatahstanding.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/TarekFatahstanding.jpg/440px-TarekFatahstanding.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1991" data-file-height="3180" /></a><figcaption>Pakistan is a living testament to the bankrupt idea of an Islamic State. ~ Tarek Fatah</figcaption></figure> <p><br /> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Pakistan">Pakistan</a></b>, officially the <b>Islamic Republic of Pakistan</b>, is a country in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:South Asia">South Asia</a>. It is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" class="extiw" title="w:List of countries by population">world’s fifth-most populous</a> country with a population exceeding 212.7 million people. In area, it is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_area" class="extiw" title="w:List of countries by area">the 33rd-largest country</a>, spanning 881,913 square kilometres (340,509 square miles). Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) <a href="/wiki/Coastline" class="mw-redirect" title="Coastline">coastline</a> along the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sea" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Arabian Sea">Arabian Sea</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Oman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Gulf of Oman">Gulf of Oman</a> in the south and is bordered by <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> to the east, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> to the west, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> to the southwest, and <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> in the northeast. It is separated narrowly from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajikistan" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Tajikistan">Tajikistan</a> by Afghanistan's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakhan_Corridor" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Wakhan Corridor">Wakhan Corridor</a> in the northwest, and also shares a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/maritime_border" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:maritime border">maritime border</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Oman">Oman</a>. </p> <dl><dd><i><b>See also <a href="/wiki/Pakistanis" title="Pakistanis">Pakistanis</a></b></i></dd></dl> <p><br /> </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benazir_Bhutto_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Benazir_Bhutto_cropped.jpg/220px-Benazir_Bhutto_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="309" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Benazir_Bhutto_cropped.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="284" data-file-height="399" /></a><figcaption>We represent the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> of a modern Pakistan, a future that has no place in it for <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">ignorance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Intolerance" title="Intolerance">intolerance</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto" title="Benazir Bhutto">Benazir Bhutto</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karachi_-_Pakistan-market.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Karachi_-_Pakistan-market.jpg/220px-Karachi_-_Pakistan-market.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Karachi_-_Pakistan-market.jpg/330px-Karachi_-_Pakistan-market.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Karachi_-_Pakistan-market.jpg/440px-Karachi_-_Pakistan-market.jpg 2x" data-file-width="947" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption> Was anything <a href="/wiki/Wrong" class="mw-redirect" title="Wrong">wrong</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Dream">dream</a> or with the one who made the dream come true? <a href="/wiki/Opinions" class="mw-redirect" title="Opinions">Opinions</a> have differed and continue to differ. ~ <a href="/wiki/Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto" title="Zulfikar Ali Bhutto">Zulfikar Ali Bhutto</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_President_of_Pakistan.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_the_President_of_Pakistan.svg/250px-Flag_of_the_President_of_Pakistan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_the_President_of_Pakistan.svg/330px-Flag_of_the_President_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_the_President_of_Pakistan.svg/440px-Flag_of_the_President_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="388" data-file-height="260" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> and its <a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">idealism</a> have taught us <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>. It has taught <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a> of man, <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a> and fairplay to everybody.. ~ <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a> </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>While the <a href="/wiki/Landlord" class="mw-redirect" title="Landlord">landlords</a> and <a href="/wiki/Capitalist_class" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalist class">capitalists</a> allowed the <a href="/wiki/Ulema" title="Ulema">clergy</a> to make Pakistan a religious state, the clergy allowed the landlords guaranteed <a href="/wiki/Right_to_property" title="Right to property">property rights</a> and the capitalists unbridled control over the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Pakistan" title="Economy of Pakistan">economy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">Theocracy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">landlordism/capitalism</a> are the two pillars of Pakistan and Bangladesh. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/M._J._Akbar" title="M. J. Akbar">Akbar, M. J.</a> India: The Siege Within. London, 1985 p 31, quoted in Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, 1995. p 322</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At this solemn hour in the <a href="/wiki/History_of_India" title="History of India">history of India</a>, when <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> and Indian statesmen are laying the foundations of a Federal Constitution for that land, we address this appeal to you, in the name of our common heritage, on behalf of our <i>thirty million Muslim</i> brethren who live in <b>PAKSTAN</b>—by which we mean the five Northern units of India, Viz: <b>P</b>unjab, North-West Frontier Province (<b>A</b>fghan Province), <b>K</b>ashmir, <b>S</b>indh and Baluchis<b>tan</b>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Choudhry_Rahmat_Ali" title="Choudhry Rahmat Ali">Choudhry Rahmat Ali</a>, <i>Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?</i> (1933). As quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yale_Book_of_Quotations/EyA3EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0"><i>The New Yale Book of Quotations</i></a>, p. 14.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the present times of grave crisis we need dissident intellectuals who can challenge the establishment... Pakistan did not develop any tradition of dissident intellectual activity. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mubarak_Ali" title="Mubarak Ali">Mubarak Ali</a>, In an interview published in The Times of India, New Delhi, 29 October 1997. Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). <i>Theory and practice of Muslim state in India.</i> New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 6</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It appears to be the dawn of a new vision pointing to a new destiny symbolized by a new name, Pakistan. The Muslims appear to have started a new worship of a new destiny for the first time. But this is really not so. The worship is new because the sun of their new destiny which was so far hidden in the clouds has only now made its appearance in full glow. The magnetism of this new destiny cannot but draw the Muslims towards it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar" title="B. R. Ambedkar">B. R. Ambedkar</a>, <i>Thoughts on Pakistan</i> (1941)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The nation is gripped in her worst crisis, standing in the middle of the road between survival and disintegration. Since the birth of Pakistan, crisis has followed crisis in rapid escalation. Millions of lives were sacrificed to create this country. Pakistan is said to be the dream of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal" title="Muhammad Iqbal">Mohammad Iqbal</a> and the creation of <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a>, the Quaid-e-Azam. Was anything wrong with the dream or with the one who made the dream come true? Opinions have differed and continue to differ. The next few years will most probably decide the issue, perhaps once and for all, and not without bloodshed. This process is not inevitable but the present policies of the ruling junta are driving this country towards a sad inevitability. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto" title="Zulfikar Ali Bhutto">Zulfikar Ali Bhutto</a>, letter to his daughter (1978), p. 37</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I fully <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a> the men behind <a href="/wiki/Al_Qaeda" class="mw-redirect" title="Al Qaeda">Al Qaeda</a>. They have tried to assassinate me twice before. The Pakistan Peoples Party and I represent everything they <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> the most — moderation, <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a> for <a href="/wiki/Women_in_Pakistan" title="Women in Pakistan">women</a>, <a href="/wiki/Information" title="Information">information</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a>.</b> We represent the <a href="/wiki/Future" title="Future">future</a> of a modern Pakistan, a future that has no place in it for <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">ignorance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Intolerance" title="Intolerance">intolerance</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a>. <br /> <b>The forces of <a href="/wiki/Moderation" title="Moderation">moderation</a> and democracy must, and will, prevail against <a href="/wiki/Extremism" title="Extremism">extremism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorship</a>.</b> I will not be intimidated. I will step out on the tarmac in Karachi not to complete a journey, but to begin one. <b>Despite threats of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>, I will not acquiesce to <a href="/wiki/Tyranny" title="Tyranny">tyranny</a>, but rather lead the <a href="/wiki/Fight" class="mw-redirect" title="Fight">fight</a> against it.</b> <ul><li>Benazhir Bhutto, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/18/journeying_to_democracy/">"Journeying to democracy" in <i>The Boston Globe</i> (18 October 2007)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Pakistan is the only government consisting simultaneously of arsonists and firefighters. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_R._Bolton" title="John R. Bolton">John R. Bolton</a>, quoted from A. Herman, Sep 2021, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/573686-its-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-our-toxic-relationship-with-pakistan">It's time to pull the plug on our toxic relationship with Pakistan</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Pakistanis... Nothing could embarrass that country... The country is effectively living on <a href="/wiki/Welfare" title="Welfare">welfare</a>, but they can afford <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" title="Nuclear weapons">nuclear weapons</a>... They simply can't be trusted. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Condell" title="Pat Condell">Pat Condell</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzD-rnmeiH8&feature=feedu">"Justice for Osama"</a> (8 May 2011), <i>YouTube</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>On my block, it's <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>. We live like we're in Pakistan. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.G._(rapper)" class="extiw" title="w:B.G. (rapper)">Christopher Dorsey</a>, "Bloody War", <i>Certified</i> (2005), by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Banner" class="extiw" title="w:David Banner">Lavell William Crump</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The formation of Pakistan was necessary so that it may be used as a base for conquering the rest of India to Islam. <ul><li>F. K. Durrani, as attributed in : Writings of Sri Purushottam Singh Yog Volume 9 (The partition conspiracy and is the indian constitution ultra vires?), p. 349 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OD7HEAAAQBAJ">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%E2%80%93United_States_military_relations" class="extiw" title="w:Pakistan–United States military relations">America's most allied ally in Asia</a>. <ul><li>U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, as quoted in Najam Rafique, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/48527652">"Rethinking Pakistan–U.S. relations"</a>, <i>Strategic Studies</i>, vol. 31, no. 3 (2011), pp. 124–152</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Max_Kohn_-_Tsunami_2005.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Max_Kohn_-_Tsunami_2005.jpg/220px-Max_Kohn_-_Tsunami_2005.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Max_Kohn_-_Tsunami_2005.jpg/330px-Max_Kohn_-_Tsunami_2005.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Max_Kohn_-_Tsunami_2005.jpg/440px-Max_Kohn_-_Tsunami_2005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="679" /></a><figcaption> The first thought a Western woman has when she arrives in a rigorously <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim country</a> like Pakistan is that she appears to be the only <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">woman</a> to have survived a tsunami that has washed away all the others. ~ Oriana Fallaci</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The first thought a Western woman has when she arrives in a rigorously <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim country</a> like Pakistan is that she appears to be the only <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">woman</a> to have survived a tsunami that has washed away all the others. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oriana_Fallaci" title="Oriana Fallaci">Oriana Fallaci</a>. Quoted in De, S. C., & Harss, M. (2017). Oriana Fallaci: The journalist, the agitator, the legend.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Pakistan is a living testament to the bankrupt idea of an Islamic State. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tarek_Fatah" title="Tarek Fatah">Tarek Fatah</a>, <i>Chasing a Mirage</i> (2008)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="I">I</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: I"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single state. Self-government within the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated Northwest Indian Muslim state appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of Northwest India. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal" title="Muhammad Iqbal">Muhammad Iqbal</a>, Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, 29 December 1930 (also at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070205091745/https://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html">University of Columbia website</a>). Quoted in Talib, S. G. S. (1950). Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947. Amritshar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. page 3</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>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. <ul><li>Muhammad Ali Jinnah's first Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (August 11, 1947)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a> (18 June 1945), in <i>Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah</i> (1960), p. 175</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not be afraid of death. Our religion teaches us always to be prepared for it. We should face it bravely if the honour of Pakistan and Islam are at stake. There is no better salvation for a Muslim than the death of a martyr for a righteous cause. Duty comes first. Have faith in God. <b>There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.</b> She is here to stay. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a>, speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore (30 October 1947), as reported in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/pakistanpastpres0000unse/page/50/mode/2up"><i>Pakistan: Past & Present</i></a> (1977), p. 50</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I do not know what the ultimate shape of this constitution is going to be, but I am sure that it will be of a <a href="/wiki/Democratic" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic">democratic</a> type, embodying the essential principle of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>. Today, they are as applicable in actual life as they were 1,300 years ago. Islam and its idealism have taught us democracy. It has taught equality of man, justice and fairplay to everybody.</b> We are the inheritors of these glorious traditions and are fully alive to our responsibilities and obligations as framers of the future constitution of Pakistan. <b>In any case Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission</b>. We have many non-<a href="/wiki/Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> — <a href="/wiki/Hindus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindus">Hindus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christians" class="mw-redirect" title="Christians">Christians</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Parsis" class="mw-redirect" title="Parsis">Parsis</a> — but they are all Pakistanis. They will enjoy the same rights and privileges as any other citizens and will play their rightful part in the affairs of Pakistan. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a>, broadcast to the people of the United States of America on Pakistan (February 1948), as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newreligion.eu/2013/02/jinnahs-dream-can-still-save-pakistan.html">"Jinnah dreamt of a secular Pakistan" in <i>New Religion</i> (11 February 2013)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I assert that Pakistan is the biggest rogue of all the rogue states of today. I assert that what is taking form there, between Islamabad and Karachi, is a <a href="/wiki/Black_hole" title="Black hole">black hole</a> compared to which <a href="/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein">Saddam Hussein</a>’s Baghdad was an obsolete weapons dump. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B.-H._L%C3%A9vy" class="mw-redirect" title="B.-H. Lévy">B.-H. Lévy</a> (2014). Who Killed Daniel Pearl.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The state withered. But faith didn’t. Failure only led back to the faith. The state had been founded as a homeland for Muslims. If the state failed, it wasn’t because the dream was flawed, or the faith flawed; it could only be because men had failed the faith. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Naipaul,_V.S." class="mw-redirect" title="Naipaul, V.S.">Naipaul, V.S.</a> - Among the Believers (Vintage, 1982)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But wasn't this what Pakistan was supposed to be? After all, it came into being on the basis of the two-nation theory, that <a href="/wiki/Hindus" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindus">Hindus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Muslims" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> were two separate states, that Hindus and Muslims could not live together. That was Pakistan's <i>raison d'être</i>. Supposing by some black magic they converted to another way of thinking... Pakistan would collapse. Therefore one of the planks of Pakistani statecraft was to keep reminding its people and the world at large of that mantra of survival: we are because we cannot live with <i>them</i>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saeed_Naqvi" title="Saeed Naqvi">Saeed Naqvi</a>, <i>Reflections of an Indian Muslim</i> (1993), quoted from Elst, Koenraad (2014). <i>Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism.</i> New Delhi: Rupa. p. 350</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Pakistan can only be achieved through shedding blood of ourselves, and if need be, and if opportunity arose, by shedding blood of others. Muslims are no believers in <a href="/wiki/Ahimsa" title="Ahimsa">Ahimsa</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abdur_Rab_Nishtar" title="Abdur Rab Nishtar">Abdur Rab Nishtar</a>, Attributed and quoted in <a href="/wiki/Gurbachan_Singh_Talib" title="Gurbachan Singh Talib">Gurbachan Singh Talib</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_League_Attack_on_Sikhs_and_Hindus_in_the_Punjab_1947" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947">Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab 1947</a></i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WScbAAAAIAAJ&q=Pakistan+can+only+be+achieved+through+shedding+blood+of+ourselves,+and+if+need+be,+and+if+opportunity+arose,+by+shedding+blood+of+others.+Muslims+are&dq=Pakistan+can+only+be+achieved+through+shedding+blood+of+ourselves,+and+if+need+be,+and+if+opportunity+arose,+by+shedding+blood+of+others.+Muslims+are&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidlJ3gj_vqAhUyHbkGHeBYCTcQ6AEwAnoECAYQAg">p. 34</a>, 1950, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiromani_Gurdwara_Prabandhak_Committee" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee">Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You know, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War" class="extiw" title="w:Nigerian Civil War">Biafra</a> stirred up a few <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholics</a>. But you know, I think Biafra stirred people up more than Pakistan, because Pakistan they’re just a bunch of brown goddamn Moslems. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>, quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>This name-Pakistan-means literally ‘the Land of the Pure’ or of Purity. This implies clearly that Hindus and all that belongs to them credally and materially is impure, defiled and unholy. In a communally-charged atmosphere to have broadcast such an offensive name and concept among the Muslims was to extend an open invitation to racial and communal arrogance, contempt of others, challenges and counter-challenges. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Talib,_S._G._S." class="mw-redirect" title="Talib, S. G. S.">Talib, S. G. S.</a> (1950). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100620015130/http://www.bharatvani.org/books/mla/index.htm">Muslim League Attack on Sikhs and Hindus in the Punjab, 1947</a>. Amritshar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.allaboutsikhs.com/sikh-literature/books-gst/muslim-league-attack-on-sikhs-and-hindus-in-the-punjab-1947-sind/">[2]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Muslim_League_Attack_on_Sikhs_and_Hindus_in_the_Punjab_1947">[3]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bharatvani.org/books/mla/index.htm">[4]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://voibooks.bitbucket.io/mla/index.html">[5]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/GurbachanSinghTalib1950/mode/2up">[6]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>(The achievement of Pakistan) was the first successful step in this <a href="/wiki/20th_century" title="20th century">20th century</a> to realise their 1200-year old dream of complete subjugation of this country. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Toynbee" title="Arnold Toynbee">Arnold Toynbee</a>, as attributed in : Writings of Sri Purushottam Singh Yog Volume 9 (The partition conspiracy and is the indian constitution ultra vires?), p. 349 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OD7HEAAAQBAJ">[7]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in <a href="/wiki/Foreign_aid" title="Foreign aid">aid</a> over the last 15 years, they have given us nothing but lies and deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_terrorism" title="Islamic terrorism">terrorists</a> we hunt in <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, with little help. No more! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, CNN: Trump's first 2018 tweet: Pakistan has 'given us nothing but lies & deceit' <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/01/politics/donald-trump-2018-pakistan/index.html">[8]</a>, The Independent <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-pakistan-tweet-lies-deceit-aid-us-president-terrorism-aid-a8136516.html">[9]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U">U</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: U"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Just as Medina had provided a base for the eventual victory of Islam in Arabia, Pakistan would pave the way for the triumphal return of Islam as the ruling power over the entire subcontinent. The whole of Hindustan would thus be turned into Pakistan just as the Prophet himself had turned all of Arabia into Pakistan. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maulana_Shabbir_Ahmad_Usmani" class="mw-redirect" title="Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani">Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani</a>, in 1946, Hamara Pakistan, Khutba-i-Sadarat Punjab Jamiatul Ulama Conference, Lahore, 25–27 January, 1946, (Hyderabad, 1946), 28. As quoted in Creating a New Medina, V. Dhulipala, pages 5, 361. And quoted in J Sai Deepak - India that is Bharat_ Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution-_ Bloomsbury India (2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan<br />Swingin through your town like your neighborhood Spiderman. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspectah_Deck" class="extiw" title="w:Inspectah Deck">Inspectah Deck</a> of , <a href="/wiki/Wu-Tang_Clan" title="Wu-Tang Clan">Wu-Tang Clan</a>, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_Ya_Neck" class="extiw" title="w:Protect Ya Neck">Protect Ya Neck</a>", <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Wu-Tang_(36_Chambers)" class="extiw" title="w:Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)">Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers</a></i> (1993)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Pakistan is like <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, an ideological state. Take out <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a> from Israel and it will collapse like a house of cards. Take Islam out of Pakistan and make it a secular state; it would collapse. For the past four years we have been trying to bring Islamic values to this country. <ul><li>General <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq" title="Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq">Zia-ul-Haq</a> (1916-89), Chief Martial Law Administrator, Pakistan, 1981. As quoted from Tariq Ali - The Clash of Fundamentalisms_ Crusades, Jihads and Modernity-Verso (2002) page 156</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistan&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pakistanis" title="Pakistanis">Pakistanis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British Raj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Pakistan" title="Crime in Pakistan">Crime in Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Pakistan" title="Economy of Pakistan">Economy of Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/India%E2%80%93Pakistan_relations" title="India–Pakistan relations">India–Pakistan relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_Jinnah" title="Muhammad Ali Jinnah">Muhammad Ali Jinnah</a></li> 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