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What is PAKISTAN?

What is Pakistan?

Pakistan is India's nightmare :P
Pakistan is The most powerful Muslim country
Pakistan is the only Islamic Country with Nukes
Pakistan is Karachi
Pakistan is rising
Pakistan is a fighter
Pakistan is natural beauty
Pakistan is China's best friend :D
Pakistan is a cricket legend
Pakistan is ME!!!!
 
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Well, nice article. According to me, a rich piece of land homing 1000s of different Nations. Just a simple description.
 
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The notion of a new Pakistani nationalism is not new in a chronological sense. It is as old as the country itself. Its newness is in how widely it is dispersed and how explicitly divorced it is from the state-defined and military-dominated version of Pakistan’s economy, its history and its politics. Old Pakistani nationalism is India-centric, it is scared of multiple identities, it rejects indigenous cultures. Worst of all, it is confused. It often plays jump rope between being Muslim and being Islamic, being Indian and being Arab. Its fear of the Bengali language broke up the country, but has failed to break reality to it. Luckily, the new Pakistani nationalism doesn’t need an invitation. It is a product of the very realities that the old nationalism helped produce. Old Pakistan may be incapable of learning lessons from its mistakes, but it seems very likely that the new Pakistani nationalism is a product of the lessons of history.


Consider: Old Pakistani nationalism is not really nationalism at all, in the sense that it is not pro-Pakistan, it's just anti-India -- Old Pakistani Nationalism is similarly, not Pro-Islam or Faith in God, rather it is anti-religion So, the ideas of an official (read army) authorized view of Pakistani history and a manufactured ideology that seeks to conflate Godless savagery with "Rahman and Raheem" -- now find, that these ideas are generally rejected, how are ordinary Pakistanis to find their way to sanity and a world view that is in accord with reality???.
 
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Well Pakistanis take great pride in saying loudly that they are Muslims before they are Pakistanis - and now you say that they identify themselves with sub-national ideas and identities - consider this post :

What is Pakistan?

Pakistan is India's nightmare
Pakistan is The most powerful Muslim country
Pakistan is the only Islamic Country with Nukes
Pakistan is Karachi
Pakistan is rising
Pakistan is a fighter
Pakistan is natural beauty
Pakistan is China's best friend
Pakistan is a cricket legend
Pakistan is ME!!!!

look at the top three things - anti-India and a weaponized Islam
 
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