PAKISTAN was achieved by the untiring and selfless efforts of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. His vision of an ideal Muslim state was to train Muslim youth to work toward an Islamic renaissance.

On July 1, 1948, while speaking at the State Bank of Pakistan’s inauguration, he rejected the Western as well as Communist economic system for Pakistan. He instead advised that we must forge our own way and present to the world an economic system based on the Islamic concept of equality of mankind and social justice.

The Quaid believed in human rights and often cited the example of the Holy Prophet’s (Peace Be Upon Him) humane treatment of people irrespective of caste and creed.

Jinnah’s Aug 11, 1947, speech lays out clearly that a government’s foremost duty is to maintain law and order and protect the life, property and religious beliefs of all of its citizens.

Regrettably, the Pakistan in which we are living today is not what the Quaid had visualised.

Danial Laghari
Tando Allahyar

Published in Dawn, August 21st, 2018