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‘Can't thank him enough for giving us Pakistan’, says General Qamar Javed Bajwa while visiting Jinnah's mausoleum on his 143rd birth anniversary
• 5 years ago'Quaid's vision about the creation of Pakistan based on the Two-Nation theory is an, even more, acknowledged reality today. We can't thank him enough for having got us Pakistan', said Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa
Kashmir after 370; view from Pakistan: India must learn from neighbour's errors, pay heed to Bacha Khan's philosophy
Abdur_rauf_yousafzai • 6 years agoIndia has time to revisit and rethink its approach. To see Mahatma Gandhi’s India turn exclusionist and intolerant would be a travesty
The dangers of exclusivist nationalism: Lessons from Jinnah's dilemmas and Theresa May's resignation
Pallavi Raghavan • 6 years agoIf the South Asian experience of the 20th century teaches us anything, it would be that it's important to be very, very careful to control the dosages of an exclusivist nationalism, since unchecked, a destructive search for the truly authentic can only lead to a narrower, more impoverished and depleted experience.
Ness Wadia's arrest not to affect his position as director of board of companies, could lead to suspension of IPL team
Fp Staff • 6 years agoNess Wadia, one of India's richest men, is believed to have been on a skiing trip in Japan when he was caught
Shatrughan Sinha calls remark on Muhammad Ali Jinnah 'slip of tongue', claims he meant to say Maulana Azad
• 6 years agoShatrughan Sinha, who recently left BJP and joined Congress, on Friday lauded Muhammad Ali Jinnah along with Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru, saying they all had a role to play for India's independence.
Imran Khan says Tipu Sultan is his 'hero', but for the sake of peace, Pakistan PM should look at Jinnah as his role model
Srinivasaprasad • 6 years agoImran Khan must remember that it was Tipu Sultan's own army general Mir Sadiq who partly did him in. If the Pakistan prime minister insists on idolising Tipu, he must watch out for Mir Sadiqs in his country's army.
Renaming India's history: Yogi Adityanath's selective obliteration of past surpasses deeds of post-Partition Pakistan
Jyotipunwani • 6 years agoThat’s the worldview of Adityanath, who famously declared that the Taj Mahal is not part of his heritage. Or of Raj Thackeray, who in 2009 ordered all shops that had the name 'Karachi' in it to drop it. Leaders like these, and we have a surfeit of them today, are no different from the residents of the new state of Pakistan, who, 71 years ago, couldn’t bear to have in their city, a garden named after “the enemy’s deity.”
AMU in a spot of controversy over Jinnah again: Portrait of Pakistan founder along with Mahatma Gandhi attracts criticism
Saurabh Sharma • 7 years agoEarlier in May, AMU had witnessed protests by right-wing elements over another portrait of the Pakistan founder placed at the Student Union hall.
Amit Shah and Muhammad Ali Jinnah comparable figures, both driven by one-point agenda, says Ramachandra Guha
• 7 years agoGuha admits that his narrative of Jinnah in his new book, Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World, 1914-1948, is "not sympathetic".
Assam NRC: Human rights of non-citizens are important but indigenous Assamese need to protect their vanishing homeland
Mayurbora • 7 years agoMigration before Independence from East Bengal and infiltration after Independence from East Pakistan and later on from Bangladesh into Assam had become so easy that it caused a profound sense of unease and fear in the minds of all Assamese people.