Quaid e Azam’s speech to the constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947
Happy Independence Day. How far have we moved from this vision. Excerpts from Quaid e Azam speech to the constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947:
“You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State…We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State…I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal and you will find that in due course Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State.