Islamic Rhetoric in Pakistan – I by Hamza Alavi

Islamic Rhetoric in Pakistan – I by Hamza Alavi

This universal opposition of virtually every significant religious group in Undivided India, indeed the entire Muslim religious establishment to the Pakistan movement and the Muslim League cannot be reconciled with any idea of religious origins of Pakistan. This is just one of many paradoxes that anyone who thinks of that the true reason for the creation of Pakistan was to establish a religious 'Islamic state', must unravel.

Our people are ignorant about these facts because there has been a systematic campaign of disinformation over more than four decades. It reached its peak under General Zia.

http://www.newageislam.com/islamic-rhetoric-in-pakistan-%E2%80%93-i-by-hamza-alavi--/islam-and-politics/d/929

Tariq Ali: Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun?

Tariq Ali: Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun?

Tomgram: Posted September 16, 2008

As we head into our "next war," most Americans know almost nothing about Pakistan, the sixth most populous country on the planet with 200 million people, and the only Islamic state with nuclear weapons. As the Bush administration commits to playing with fire in that desperately poor land, it's time to learn. Ali, who posts below on the next U.S. war, has just written a new book, The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power -- published today -- that traces the U.S.-Pakistani relationship from the 1950s to late last night.

http://www.newageislam.com/tariq-ali--has-the-u.s.-invasion-of-pakistan-begun?/war-on-terror/d/737