Will Pakistan be a secular state? #Jinnah: I didn't say anything to that effect. pic.twitter.com/iPv4FVUF9S
— Aisha Baloch (@AyishaBaloch) September 11, 2015
There was a denial from a website name Pakteahouse to this tweet by an author named Yasser Latif Hamdani who also tried to rebut me on my twitter.Mr. Hamdani has quoted the entire press conference in his blog but it seems that he stopped quoting where it seemed to stop serving his purpose of trying to prove Quaid-e-Azam as secular. Let me quote further after he stopped quoting.
Another correspondent suggested that the questioner meant a state run by Maulanas.Mr Jinnah: What about the Government run by pandits in Hindustan (Laughter) 'When you talk of democracy' Jinnah went on, 'I'm Afread you have not studied Islam, We learnt democracy thirteen centuries ago,'
The Governor-General-designate of Pakistan got up from his chair and telling the correspondents that they had no more useful questions to ask walked out of the room. But before he left, a correspondent asked him: 'I presume from what you have said, Mr. Jinnah, that Pakistan will be a modern democratic state (secular state).Mr Jinnah quickly replied: ' When did I ever say that?, I never said anything to that effect'
Source of this quote is, Hindustan times, 14 July 1947 (NV Vol VI, p.276 fn)
I think Mr. Hamdani should do a little more research and not quote incomplete things for trying to prove me wrong. I could have simply ignored him but the onus of proving myself truthful was upon me. Mr. Hamdani constantly tried to prove to his circles that by quoting, I am implying that Jinnah wanted a theocratic state, which again is a misleading remark.
Aisha Baloch, she tweets here
