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...Last week a high court ordered Advani to stand trial for inciting violence in a speech before the Ayodhya mosque's destruction. Nowadays, however, he is more likely to exasperate his own party: on a visit to Pakistan last month, he praised its founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Brahma Chellaney, strategic studies professor at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, says this broad change in the Hindu right has helped "mellow" relations between India and Pakistan. "Even if there is another major attack, there will be no major reaction in India," he says. Which is another way of saying...
...announcement was expected, but it came with an unanticipated bonus. In a nationally televised session of Parliament, President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, standing before a portrait of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding father, proclaimed an end last week to 8½ years of martial law. As legislators banged their desks in approval, Zia concluded his speech with the rallying cry "Long live the era of democracy!" Opposition politicians, expecting the move, had already labeled Zia's latest steps toward democracy a "fraud." Perhaps in anticipation of so skeptical a response, the wily soldier-politician sprang a surprise: he ended...
...partition, most of Karachi's 440,000 population of Hindus had left and were replaced by 1.2 million Mohajirs, or Indian migrants. They had followed the dream of Pakistan's founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to create a nation for Muslims. But the Mohajirs were in for a rude shock. Many of the local Punjabis, Sindhis and Pathans regarded them as unwanted trespassers. They still do, except nowadays the Mohajirs have earned wary respect by carrying out vicious ethnic warfare in Karachi throughout the early 1990s. The Pathans and the Sindhis retaliated but the Mohajirs matched them murder for murder...
...secular-minded General, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has a unique opportunity to show his mettle and invoke the ideals of his nation's founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah [PAKISTAN, Oct. 22]. Jinnah believed that the country should be not a theocratic Muslim state but a secular, progressive democracy, that religion should be a personal matter for its citizens and have nothing to do with the administration of the state. Unless Pakistan returns to the ideals held by Jinnah, there will not be peace and harmony in the country. IJAZ A. QAMAR Mississauga...
...Orphaned a year after its birth 54 years ago?when its founder and main visionary, the secular-minded lawyer Muhammad Ali Jinnah, died?the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has always suffered from an identity crisis. Born out of bloodshed, chaos, pride and insecurity, Pakistan was created as a homeland for India's Muslims?its very name means "land of the spiritually pure"?but Jinnah, who favored a pluralistic democracy, never envisioned a theocratic state. His successors had other ideas, and 30 years after Jinnah was gone, the military dictator General Zia ul-Haq shackled the country's fortunes to religion...