Pakistan Ideology - Deliberately left vague by Jinnah to mean anything for anybody ======================================================= “Pakistan meant different things to different people. To the landlords it meant continued leadership, to the doctrinal-minded Muslims, a unique opportunity to create an Islamic state in the light of their ideas, to the Muslim intelligentsia and the poorer classes, a state where social and economic justice would prevail and their dignity established according to Iqbalite teachings, to the peasants, freedom from the yoke of the Hindu money-lender, to the regional leaders, greater autonomy than was expected in a united India dominated by the Congress, to the Muslim bourgeoisie, the necessary environment where they could develop their potential, which seemed choked in a united India due to the many times greater strength of Hindu and Parsee capital based in Bombay and Calcutta, to the bureaucrats and the military an excellent opportunity to secure quick promotions and to the military establishment it brought a central role in a country where the civilian political process was dependent from the beginning upon its support and active participation.” Ishtiaq Ahmed, The Concept of an Islamic State: The Ideological Controversy in Pakistan dailytimes.pk/opinion/11-Feb-2014/pakistan-a-phantasmagoria-par-excellence
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