Identify politics and minorities in Pakistan

South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-125

  Rais, Rasul Bakhsh ^a  

^a LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; ISLAMISM; MARGINALIZATION; MINORITY GROUP; NATIONAL IDENTITY; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; TERRORISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34247599765     PISSN: 00856401     EISSN: 14790270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00856400701264050     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Anwar Syed, Pakistan: Islam and National Solidarity (Lahore: Vanguard Books, 1984), pp.74-100.
2. Hasan-Askari Rizvi, Military, State and Society in Pakistan (London: Macmillan Press, 2000), pp.1-16.
3. Ayesha Jalal, 'Ideology and the Struggle for Democratic Institutions', in Victoria Schofield (ed.), Old Roads New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp.121-38.
4. Khalid bin Sayeed, Pakistan: The Formative Phase 1857-1948 (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 1998), pp.28-33.
5. See for instance Ishtiaq Husain Qureshi, A Short History of Pakistan (Karachi: University of Karachi, 1988).
6. See the views of the ulema (scholars of Islamic religion) in Sharif Al Mujahid, Ideological Orientation of Pakistan (Karachi: National Book Foundation, 1976).
7. Government of Punjab, 'Report of the Court of Inquiry Constituted under Punjab Act II of 1954 to Inquire into the Punjab Disturbances of 1953' (Lahore: Superintendent of Government Publications, 1954).
8. Quaid-i-Azam Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Speeches as Governor-General of Pakistan 1947-1948 (Karachi: Pakistan Publications, n.d.), pp.8-9.
9. The members of the Constituent Assembly from East Pakistan had vehemently argued in support of joint electorates, a political battle they later won.
10. For details see M. Rafique Afzal, Political Parties in Pakistan, 1947-58, Vol.1 (Islamabad: National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research, 1986), pp.185-9.
11. They are not allowed to make prayer calls or to display Islamic symbols or put up Islamic religious inscriptions in their places of worship.
12. Tayyab Mahmud, 'Protecting Religious Minorities: The Courts' Abdication', in Charles H. Kennedy and Rasul Bakhsh Rais (eds), Pakistan: 1995 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), p.84.
13. Mumtaz Ahmad, 'Revivalism, Islamization, Sectarianism and Violence in Pakistan', in Craig Baxter and Charles H. Kennedy (eds), Pakistan: 1997 (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998), p.118.
14. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Newsletter 11, no.4 (Oct. 2000), pp.13-14.
15. See for instance, I.A. Rehman, 'A Critique of Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws', in Tarik Jan et al., Pakistan Between Secularism and Islam: Ideology, Issues and Conflict (Islamabad: Institute of Policy Studies, 1998), pp.196-204.
16. The SSP and SP share an exclusivist religious outlook but conflicting interpretations of the history of Islam and its doctrines. Each questions the authenticity of the other and each proclaims the other is outside the pale of Islam. See Qasim Zaman, 'Sectarianism in Pakistan: The Radicalization of Shia and Sunni Identities', in Modern Asian Studies, Vol.32, no.3 (July 1998), pp.689-716.
17. However this comparison may be misleading because the minorities are far fewer in number.
18. Amnesty International, Pakistan: Use and Abuse of Blasphemy Laws (New York: Amnesty International, 1994), pp.6-7.
19. Amir Taheri, 'The Death of bin Ladenism', The New York Times (11 July 2002).
20. 'Electoral Changes: Bold and Innovative', Dawn (18 Jan. 2002).