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Dear Readers,
While All Things Pakistan has remained alive and online, it has been dormant since June 11, 2011 - when, on the blog's 5th anniversary, we decided that it was time to move on. We have been heartened by your messages and the fact that a steady traffic has continued to enjoy the archived content on ATP. While the blog itself will remain dormant, we are now beginning to add occasional (but infrequent) new material by the original authors of the blog, mostly to archive what they may now publish elsewhere. We will also be updating older posts to make sure that new readers who stumble onto this site still find it useful.
We hope you will continue to find ATP a useful venue to reflect upon and express your Pakistaniat. - Editors
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Mantra…
Well said. What you say is especially true for a country that was founded on the principle that a permanent majority should by sheer numerical strength dictate to a permanent minority.
That is the long and short of the matter. Fundamental rights must be supreme and minorities must be given ample opportunity to be empowered and politically mainstreamed without any cultural compulsions.
Athar,
I think I understand what you’re trying to do (work around the “toxic” islam vs. secularism debate) but I highly doubt people will abandon their principles in order to to come to a middle ground.
Furthermore, I disagree with your contention that Islam’s role in democracy should be decided by the people. Democracy is not the tyranny of a majority. People have fundamental rights. The role of the religion should be constrained so as not to be able to easily infringe Pakistanis’ fundamental rights (which would be doing something different from what has happened in the past 60 years).