Uti possidetis juris and Israel's legal borders

[VCheng]

That's what wise political leadership can help defuse, right?

Pakistan is not run by a political leadership, and what passes for one is certainly not wise.

 

[Solomon2]

Pakistan is not run by a political leadership, and what passes for one is certainly not wise.

Precisely why new voices need to step forward - or old ones reinvent themselves.

 

[VCheng]

Precisely why new voices need to step forward - or old ones reinvent themselves.

Not really.. The existing state of affairs and the mechanisms to keep them going are finely honed and serve the Establishment well. Why change them?

 

[Solomon2]

Top international law expert takes down "Occupied Palestinian Territories" meme

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Amb.Alan Baker, who participated in negotiations on the Oslo Accords and today is Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs explains how the OPT concept has no basis in international law.​

 

[All-Green]

Out of sight, out of mind. Pakistan doesn't excel at confronting and resolving its problems; it buries them instead, and they erupt afterward.

The three situations - Zionophobia, Banglaphobia, Indiaphobia - all strike me as having a common root: the elevation of power-worship above individual civil and property rights. I think the branch occurred in the early 1900s when the Indian Muslim (or proto-Pakistani) leadership decided to oppose the Zionist project: that meant putting what they felt was a shared group identity above that of Western rights (like those of Britain) and a common human decency. Extremism took off from there, soon morphing into Hindu-hatred, then separatism.

The creation of Pakistan was not due to hatred of Hindus.
It was due to the growing concern of the political marginalization of Muslims which led Jinnah to advocate certain checks and balances in order to protect the Muslim minority.
Since Congress and Muslim league could not agree on the mechanisms here, each side started seeing the other as the realization of their fears.
However despite all this, Jinnah never preached any disrespect of Hindus nor any other religion.
The evolution of Jinnah and Muslim league was not based on hatred of Hindus or a radical Islam.
Such things are propaganda and have been used by blundering fools and twisted manipulators alike to gain relevance for their political views.

Jinnah always advocated equality for all people regardless of race, creed and religion.
Same was his vision for Pakistan in which he wanted the people to be free of religious bias

This is completely in line with his 11th August 1947 Speech given to the constitutional assembly.
"In course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State."

The concocted view of Pakistan's creation as arising from an anti-Hindu mindset is perhaps easy to propagate due to the highly irresponsible use of doctored/distorted Islamic views as a political counterweight, weakening economy, global marginalization of Muslim countries, unresolved Kashmir issue and most importantly a very weak/immature State response to check and debunk this propaganda which has corrupted the narrative of Pakistan and its founder.
This perception has trumped reality and impinged upon the very free space which Jinnah envisioned in terms of equality for all religions and people within Pakistan.

However the Pakistanis do not love to hate, the Indians who come here are treated as our respected guests.
Our spirit of hospitality and generosity is very real...
If only the major sources of the hate spewing propaganda are checked by the government and state more effectively, we shall slowly find the Pakistan which our forefathers helped create.