Articles in Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan
The Insoluble Equation: Indo-Pak Relations
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 May , 2014
The two-nation theory has mired Indo-Pak relationship into an intractable problem in Kashmir. More than a half-century has gone by after independence and four wars fought during this period but...
Two-Nation Theory Converts into Islamic Ideology - II
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 14 Jun , 2011
Demand for Nizam-i-Mustafa: In the elections in 1970, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party had emerged as the single largest party in West Pakistan. Bhutto had denounced the Tashkent...
Two-Nation Theory Converts into Islamic Ideology - I
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
Jinnah’s Secular Approach:In the final analysis it was the religious sentiment that was exploited by the Muslim League to secure Pakistan but Pakistan was not intended to be a theocratic state...
Germination of Pakistan - II
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 03 Jun , 2011
Emphasis on Muslims as a Distinct Entity Thanks to the efforts of Syed Ahmed Khan, separate electorates and the political ambitions of League leaders including Jinnah, some academic interest had...
Germination of Pakistan - I
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 02 Jun , 2011
Entry of Islam into the Subcontinent: The embryo of Pakistan, for Mohammed Ali Jinnah, its founder, was conceived the moment the first Muslim set his foot on the subcontinent.1 That was in AD 712...
Pakistan: The cost of two-nation theory
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 06 May , 2011
Mohammed Ali Jinnah is on record, claiming that he brought about Pakistan single-handedly. Had he not been born would Pakistan exist today? Historians have always found the ‘Ifs’ of history...
Pakistan Armed Forces: The Other Pillar
By: Anand K Verma | Issue: Book Excerpt: Reassessing Pakistan | Date: 25 Apr , 2011
The Muslim League whose campaign led to the birth of Pakistan could hardly be called a grass roots party until after 1940 when the Pakistan Resolution was adopted. The League might have operated...