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| India-Pakistan |
| The ‘discoveries’ of Pakistan |
| 2008-03-14 |
| “Nehru wrote The Discovery of India in the Ahmednagar Fort prison. I began my journey to Discover Pakistan in the New Central Jail, Multan…” So reads a small segment of the book on the Discovery of Pakistan, The Indus Saga-From Pataliputra to Partition by Aitzaz Ahsan, a legal luminary, human rights activist and an unrelenting champion of democracy. History is often made by the churning of buoyant minds, and discoveries are made by great explorers delving into the realms of cranial electrodes and the physical world. But the Discovery of Pakistan by Pakistanis has more metaphysical ingredients than the ingredients needed to make an Einstein. Before the acclaimed Mr Ahsan discovered Pakistan while moving from one jail to another during Zia-ul-Haq regime, another worthy explorer, Chaudhry Rahmat Ali, had discovered the ethnic, linguistic, and religious wirings of the odd bubble of modern history – Pakistan. He coined the word and scribbled the philosophy around the time Allama Mohammad Iqbal discovered and pronounced the historic imperative for a separate Muslim homeland. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 WORLDNEWS > THE LEGACY OF GHANDI TO INDIA, to include "old" India [Paki + AFghanistan]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-14 22:04 |
| #3 I don't know either. But from the comments, a couple of guys I think got the jist of it, and they appear to want to debate with him in the typically Muslim way... Posted by Al Haj al Badawi on Mar 14,2008 19:31 PM I double my offer of $ 1 million for Dhar's head. Get the head and get the money. Posted by Intazam on Mar 14,2008 16:09 PM You Hindus deserve ghoolami of the Muslims. You were our Ghoolams for 1000 years. We would again take you under our sword. You Jimmis are incurable kafirs. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-03-14 13:43 |
| #2 Basically a sardonic view of the founding, history and curren mess that is Pakistan. Pretty much summed up by the last paragraph: But the fact remains that the so-called 5,000 year-old Nation on the Indus is no nation at all. It is a jihad exporting region ruled by fanatic army commanders, mullahs and paranoid politicians. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2008-03-14 12:53 |
| #1 What the hell is this guy talking about?! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-03-14 10:59 |