by Yasser Latif Hamdani* *The author is a barrister and the author of the book Jinnah A Life published by Pan Macmillan. The creation of Pakistan was always going to be controversial, open to misinterpretation and misuse by many sections, both amongst the Muslims and amongst the Hindu majority in India. Jinnah and the Muslim […]
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by Yasser Latif Hamdani* *The author is a practicing lawyer based in Lahore. He is also the author of the book, “Jinnah; Myth or Reality.” His email address is [email protected] Abstract The complex set of events that led to the partition of India do not quite gel with the ideological and nationalist mythologies that the people
Jinnah, Secularism and the Ideology of Pakistan Read More »
by Yasser Latif Hamdani* *The author is a practicing lawyer based in Lahore. He is also the author of the book, “Jinnah; Myth or Reality.” His email address is [email protected]. Abstract Our challenges emerge from our inability to think clearly about the raison d’etre of Pakistan and, furthermore, to accommodate within the nation state framework,
Pakistan’s Perpetual Ideological Crisis and the Threat of Genocide against Ahmadis Read More »
by Yasser Latif Hamdani* *The author is a practicing lawyer based in Lahore. He is also the author of the book, “Jinnah; Myth or Reality.” His email address is Yasser.hamdani@gmail. com Abstract Most accounts of partition of India revolve around either the all India dimension of the politics during British Raj or to the politics
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by Yasser Latif Hamdani* * The author is a practicing lawyer based in Lahore. He is also author of the book: “Jinnah; Myth and Reality.” His email address is [email protected] Abstract (Pakistan is a Muslim state in so much as that its most identifiable characteristic is that it is home to 97 percent Muslim population
Exclusion in post 1974 Pakistan and the ideology of Muslim Nationalism Read More »
by Yasser Latif Hamdani* Abstract (Maulana Ataullah Shah Bokhari of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam and Maulana Mufti Mahmood of erstwhile Jamiat-e-Ulema-Hind (and later Jamiat-e-Ulema-Islam) are two Deobandi religio-political figures from our history who were most active in providing ideological and intellectual basis for Islamisation, sectarian radicalization and militancy in Pakistani society. The searing irony is that both of
Deobandi Radicalization – From Political Activism To Terrorism Read More »
by Yasser Latif Hamdani* *The author is a practicing lawyer based in Lahore. He is also author of the book: “Jinnah; Myth and Reality.” His email address is [email protected] Events in India, the Dadri lynching, cow politics and now Shiv Sena’s offer of Indian Rs 100,000 to anyone who slaps Indian Muslim actor Aamir Khan
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By Yasser Latif Hamdani[*] Abstract The one tremendous failure of Pakistani democracy has been to give minorities in the country a palpable stake in the governance of their own country. This has led to the gradual alienation of Non-Muslim Pakistanis from the political and social narrative of the state. On the one hand this is
Pakistani Constitution, Islam and Minorities Read More »
By Yasser Latif Hamdani[1] Abstract Modern Turkey and Pakistan share a lot of similarities in the way they were both brought about into existence. Much like the Muslim ruling military elite of the Ottoman Empire around the time of World War I, the former Muslim elite of the Mughal Empire had developed a sense of
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By Yasser Latif Hamdani[1] Abstract (The author touches upon the various reasons behind the partition of 1971 and the strengthening of Bengali national identity – Editor) “After how many meetings shall we be close again” – Faiz Ahmad Faiz The separation of East Pakistan was a tragedy that still haunts our collective national memory after
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