Jinnah’s Vision For Pakistan: Fundamentalist Or Secular State?

Whenever I walk past the confines of Lincoln’s Inn, the most prestigious Inn to have housed many political geniuses and ardent barristers of the caliber of Muhammad Iqbal, Tony Blair and Z.A. Bhutto, no one comes to my mind more than the founding father of my country—Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who 75 years ago, was eons ahead of his time.

Yet, today’s Pakistan is so far beyond his vision; it is marred by fundamentalism, authoritarianism and political patronage, a state where rule of law is subservient to the will of the ruling elite, where intolerance reigns and today, a state that might or might not be defaulting on its sovereign debt.