Pakistan has no genuine history or ideology
Pakistan has no genuine history or ideology. It is not the country of a single nation but a multi-national state. It was created in the name of religion, but no country can be built merely on the basis of religion; it should have been run as a confederation. This state cannot function without democracy. If you do not recognize the identities of nations, if you do not give them the right of self-determination, the right of ownership, and the right of sovereignty—if you deny the people the freedom to choose their representatives, to use their vote, and if you impose restrictions on their right to speak, write, and listen—then how can you expect nations to remain silent? Here, equality of nations is not recognized on the pretext that “Pakistani is one nation and one identity.” But the real question is: how can the five-thousand-year history and civilizations of these nations be erased for the sake of a seventy-eight-year-old history? In such conditions, the circle of Bengal is being ...