Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, Pakistan, The Fatherland of the Pak Nation, Third Edition, 1946
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Taking on the Founders
Umer Ali:
Ever since its inception, many efforts
have been made to justify the creation of Pakistan. Based on Two-Nation
Theory, one that defines both Muslims and Hindus as different nations,
the said purpose of its creation was to safeguard the rights of Muslims.
The
theory itself is full of glaring paradoxes and has been questioned
innumerable times in the past. To counter these questions, many
state-sponsored historians, most of them belonging to far-right, have
tried hard to prove the authenticity of the theory by relating it to
Muslims rulers from the past.
From Muhammad Bin Qasim to Mahmud Ghaznavi, we have named the foreign invaders as the founders of this theory.
One such ‘historian’, Dr Safdar Mahmud, wrote last year that Ghauri was in fact the founder of Pakistan.
Debunking
this vile claim, Dr Mubarak Ali wrote, “It is customary to be proud of
our invaders such as Muhammad Bin Qasim, Mahmoud of Ghazna and Muhammad
Ghori and to denounce other invaders who looted our country from time to
time. In fact, all these invaders were mass murderers and should be
treated as criminals in history.”
Many
such historians trace the spiritual link of Two-Nation Theory to the
likes of Sheikh Ahmed Sirhindi and Shah Wali Ullah. In our textbooks,
the foundation of the idea of two different nations has been credited to
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
When reading
through the original text from these personalities, one comes to
conclusion that their ideologies were as contradictory and paradoxical
as the theory itself.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Why blame Zia alone?
Salman Zafar has a newspaper blog article that points out that the rot in Pakistan long precedes General Zia-ul-Haq, whom it is fashionable nowadays, to blame for Pakistan's ills.
These include the Objectives Resolution, 1949, which bound state and religion together; the Doctrine of Necessity, 1954, that enabled constitutional processes to be broken at will; the One Unit program, 1954, that made West Pakistan into one province to try to match East Pakistan; the Constitution of 1956, that made Pakistan into an Islamic Republic, and gave the President the right to declare emergency; the first coup of 1958; the Constitution of 1962 that set up the Council of Islamic Ideology; the unequal treatment of East Pakistan that created massive unrest 1965-1970; the denial of the right of the East Pakistan based Awami League to form the government after it won the elections; the genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971; the second amendment to the Constitution of 1973 that declared Ahmadis as non-Muslims.
These include the Objectives Resolution, 1949, which bound state and religion together; the Doctrine of Necessity, 1954, that enabled constitutional processes to be broken at will; the One Unit program, 1954, that made West Pakistan into one province to try to match East Pakistan; the Constitution of 1956, that made Pakistan into an Islamic Republic, and gave the President the right to declare emergency; the first coup of 1958; the Constitution of 1962 that set up the Council of Islamic Ideology; the unequal treatment of East Pakistan that created massive unrest 1965-1970; the denial of the right of the East Pakistan based Awami League to form the government after it won the elections; the genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971; the second amendment to the Constitution of 1973 that declared Ahmadis as non-Muslims.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Yet another
The Daily Times has yet another article, this one by Shahid Ilyas, arguing against the pakteahouse version of history. I think as a humanitarian gesture, a case of Pepto-Bismol should be delivered to Lahore.
PS: The response on PakTeaHouse is titled "Shahid Illyas' bankrupt article today: Just another example of how General Zia poisoned our youth."
PS: The response on PakTeaHouse is titled "Shahid Illyas' bankrupt article today: Just another example of how General Zia poisoned our youth."
A hard hitting piece by Hoodbhoy
Himal magazine published an article by Pervez Hoodbhoy, and it has been reproduced on pakteahouse.
Hoodbhoy makes the following point
Hoodbhoy makes the following point
Decades after the horrific bloodbath of Partition, the idea of Pakistan remains hotly debated. It did not help that Jinnah died in 1948, just a year after Pakistan was born, with his plans still ambiguously stated. He authored no books and wrote no policy paper. He did make many speeches, of which several were driven by political expediency and are frankly contradictory. These are freely cherry-picked today, with some finding in them a liberal and secular voice; others, an embodiment of Islamic values. The confusion is irresolvable.
Pakistan is a bullock cart, not a Porsche
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur in the Daily Times says that Pakistan's problems arise from the actions that led to its creation (and the conclusion one would draw is that this cannot be rectified by historical revisionism - changing the narrative of Pakistan's founding).
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
Brilliant!
On chaighar, the comments veered towards the Aryan Invasion Theory. Shiv then very cleverly points out the subjectivity of history.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Reflections on History
Chaighar has two new articles:
Ishtiaq Ahmed’s Distortions About The Pakistan Movement
The Idea of Pakistan
You can use this area for comments on these articles. But why spend any time at all on these seemingly unending and fruitless controversies?
Ishtiaq Ahmed’s Distortions About The Pakistan Movement
The Idea of Pakistan
You can use this area for comments on these articles. But why spend any time at all on these seemingly unending and fruitless controversies?
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