Kahlil Gibran said, “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” It is quite disheartening to see some senseless social media sharing various real or fabricated quotes from Maulana Azad’s poor forecast for the future of Pakistan and others of his ilk who did not support the “Two Nations theory” and partition of the sub-continent. However, it is for sure that had Azad and his like-minded people lived long enough to see the miserable plight of Muslims and other majorities living in India, they would have definitely regretted their ill-boding and appreciated Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s vision. Regrettably, the sustained disinformation campaign is used by the enemies of Pakistan to add to the frustration of people, especially those who are accustomed to seeing the half glass empty, rather than being thankful for the half glass full that they enjoy with complete freedom.
As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed”; and that is how almost all the colonized and oppressed people of the world got independence and some are still struggling to regain or maintain it with colonial rule transformed into economic subjugation through new global economic structure regulated through the World Bank, IMF and other IFIs and new International security structure implemented through NATO and other somewhat similar military alliances. The two-nation theory (Urdu: do qaumī nazariya) was the basis of the creation of Pakistan. The two-nation theory in its simplest way meant that cultural, political, religious, economic, and social dissimilarities between the two major communities i.e. Hindus and Muslims of the Subcontinent made them two divergent nations. At the All India Muslim League Session at Lahore on March 23, 1940, Quaid-I-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah........