IDEOLOGY OF PAKISTAN

IDEOLOGY OF PAKISTAN DERIVES ITS STRENGTH FROM THE TWO NATION THEORY FIRST PROPOUNDED BY SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN IN THE 19TH CENTURY. IT GAINED STRENGTH WHEN IN 1930 SIR MOHAMMED IQBAL SPOKE OF THE GROWING PROBLEMS OF MUSLIMS IN THE SUB-CONTINENT AND HIS VISION OF A SEPARATE MUSLIM HOMELAND. THE DREAM CAME TRUE UNDER THE DYNAMIC AND PRAGMATIC LEADERSHIP OF QUAID-E-AZAM MOHAMMED ALI JINNAH WHO, AFTER ALL HIS EFFORTS AS AN AMBASSADOR OF HINDU-MUSLIM UNITY, HAD FINALLY COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HINDUS AND MUSLIM OF THE SUBCONTINENT COULD NEVER BE RESOLVED. THE MUSLIM NATION HAD TO TAKE CONTROL OF ITS OWN DESTINY AND IT DID SO THROUGH THE CREATION OF PAKISTAN IN 1947.

PAKISTAN'S IDEOLOGY IS BASED ON THE TWO-NATION THEORY, AND AS THE QUAID-E-AZAM SUMMED IT, "..WE HAVE OUR DISTINCTIVE OUTLOOK ON LIFE AND OF LIFE. BY ALL CANONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW WE ARE A NATION."
IN HIS SPEECH AT LAHORE, AFTER CRITICIZING THE CONCEPT OF A CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, JINNAH DECLARED..
"IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN TAKEN FOR GRANTED, MISTAKENLY THAT THE MUSLIMS ARE A MINORITY, AND ... THESE SETTLED NOTIONS ARE VERY DIFFICULT TO REMOVE. THE MUSALMANS ARE NOT A MINORITY. THE MUSALMANS ARE A NATION BY ANY DEFINITION... THE PROBLEM IN INDIA IS NOT OF INTER-COMMUNAL BUT MANIFESTLY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER. THE ONLY COURSE OPEN TO US ALL IS TO ALLOW THE MAJOR NATIONS SEPARATE HOMELANDS BY DIVIDING INDIA INTO AUTONOMOUS NATIONAL STATES."
SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN WAS A MORNING STAR OF MUSLIM POLITICAL AWAKENING IN THE SUB-CONTINENT. AS EARLY AS 1886, SIR SYED AHMAD DECLARED, "THOSE WHO LIVE AFTER ME, WOULD SEE THAT THESE TWO NATIONS, MUSLIMS AND HINDUS, WOULD NOT LIVE TOGETHER."
MOHAMMED IQBAL - AN INFLUENTIAL THINKER WHO CRITICIZED THE WEST, FOR ITS SUPERFICIALITY AND MATERIALISM, AND PREACHED THAT ISLAM WAS A UNITING FORCE, CULTURALLY AS WELL AS RELIGIOUSLY, AND UNITED MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD.
IT WAS IN 1930 THAT HE PROPOSED A SEPARATE MUSLIM HOMELAND IN NORTH WEST INDIA. HE BUILT UP THE MUSLIM CONSCIOUSNESS BY FUSING THE PAST AND THE PRESENT INTO AN ETERNAL PRESENT. HE INSPIRED THE MUSLIMS WITH A NEW VISION AND GAVE THEM A NEW VOICE.
THE MINAR-E-PAKISTAN STANDS AT THE SITE OF THE PASSING OF THE PAKISTAN RESOLUTION IN 1940 IN WHAT USED TO BE THE MINTO PARK OF PRE-PARTITION LAHORE.
HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME, ALL-INDIA MUSLIM LEAGUE DECLARED PAKISTAN AS ITS GOAL.