Reinventing Pakistan: The Rise of The Left

Saima Sahiba,
Great Article....

I love it.....

If Pakistan just had a few more daughters like you...

Pakistan does need a reformation.... it is so overdue...

Unity, Faith, Discipline...... Jinnah needs to stop rolling in his grave!

We Pakistanis need to make sure of it............

A wonderful article as usual...

``Yet, the odd paradox is that the Left elements rather than the Rightist Maulvi contributed more to the creation of Pakistan``

This is a fact that is more often overlooked... but the Communist Party of India supported the Muslim League while the Rightist Mullahs from Deoband and Jamaat-e-Islami opposed it. Well said. I won`t describe Sir Syed Ahmed Khan or Allama Iqbal as necessarily left ... but Jinnah was the member of the British Fabian Society from the 1931-1934... In the mid 1940s Jinnah made a deliberate effort to attract more leftists within the Muslim League fold which was being dominated by the Punjabi Landlords post Sikandar-Jinnah pact... the result was Mian Iftikharuddin, Sajjad Zahir (Who contributed a lot to the left wing of the league) and even Faiz Ahmed Faiz who became the editor of the League`s leftwing mouthpiece ``The Pakistan Times`` in January 1947 (as opposed to the centrist ``Dawn`` and rightist ``Nawai Waqt`` also the league mouthpieces)

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That said... all elements of Pakistani society will succeed if we just follow one thing: the 1973 constitution in letter and spirit because while I might find it distasteful for this reason or that... it is a consensus document.