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Pakistan’s ideology was grounded in the intense feelings of injustices amongst the Muslim minority in undivided India. Majority of Muslims in pre-Partition India wanted to protect their Muslim identity, and political and economic rights. These feelings became the foundation of the two-nation theory. While leaders of the Indian National Congress contested such claims, the All India Muslim League fought the case of the Muslims of the subcontinent and was successful in gaining a separate country on the basis of separate identity of Muslims.
Had Muslims been treated equally in undivided India, Muslim nationalism might not have emerged so strongly. Social justice, equality, protection of political, religious and economic rights were the foundation stones of Pakistan’s ideology. If any other group had a population relative to Muslims in undivided India, it might also have followed the same path to claim independence. The struggle for independence was universal in principles and specifically about Muslim nationalism. These principles were elucidated time and again by the Quaid-e-Azam. This was done most emphatically and famously in his address 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 or 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 … Even now there are some States in existence where there are discriminations made and bars imposed against a particular class. Thank God, we are not starting in those days. We are starting in the days where there is no discrimination, no distinction between one community and another, no discrimination between one caste or creed and another. We are starting with this fundamental principle: that we are all citizens, and equal citizens, of one State. ”
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