Muhammad Ali Jinnah Quotes
There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan
Half of Pakistan was undone when the corrupt and incompetent government neglected half of Pakistan which then revolted and became the independent nation of Bangladesh. The reminder of Pakistan has been in a constant state of civil war between the Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorists who oppose a democratic state and the majority of Pakistan which does. The result is a Pakistan Government which is very weak, and a military that is strong enough to intimidate the civilian government, but not willing to take on the terrorists who kill Pakistanis almost every day.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, 1876-1948, Founder of Pakistan and First Governor General, Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore, October 30, 1947
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He persuaded many other rulers to join the Indian Union when India became Independent.
Even in modern times many politicians the world over agree with Davis’s point that for a government to function well, the nation must have a homogenous citizenship. This is especially true of dictatorships where control of a uniform culture and populous is easier than if it is diverse nation. In modern times, the three greatest economic and scientific powers, the United States, The Soviet Union, and China were and are multicultural societies with different ethnicities, races, religions, and cultures among their sitizenry.
At the partition if India into Hindu and Muslim States, what is now Bangladesh, was a part of Pakistan called “East Pakistan” by the Pakistani government. While India became a thriving democracy, Pakistan with its combination of military strongmen and Islamic Fundamentalists did not fare as well and became a very corrupt, undemocratic military nation. East Pakistan was not contiguous with the rest of Pakistan and was culturally quite different and less religiously fundamentalist. While all Pakistanis suffered from poor government, the East Pakistanis fared worse. Finally, they developed their own identity which was suppressed by the military dictators of Pakistan and the Banglas revolted and Bangladesh became and independent nation.
See {640102} and {640101} for his view of what a nation is not.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister, politician and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the inception of Pakistan on 14 August 1947, and then as the Dominion of Pakistan's first Governor-General until his death. He is revered in Pakistan as the Quaid-i-Azam ("Great Leader") and Baba-i-Qaum ("Father of the Nation"). His birthday is observed as a national holiday in Pakistan.
