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Ideology of pakistan

Ideology is the systematic body of concepts

especially about life or culture. It comes from divine guidance or from great minds. It constitutes a system of human life including theories, objectives and assertions of life. In a society. the individuals should have common ideology. The term ideology means science of ideas. It contains those ideas that a nation strives to accomplish in order to bring stability to its nationhood. The ideology grows amongst the dissatisfied group of society as a challenge to the prevailing social set up.

. Types of ideology Human Ideology (Communism,Sikhism,capitalism)

Divine Ideology. Islam,Judaism,Christianity

Basis of Ideology of Pakistan


Pakistani ideology is based on the ideals of
Islamic system and it was a reaction to the Hindu and British exploitation of the Muslims. It was a revolt against the prevailing system of India where the Hindu culture was forcibly imposed on the Muslims of sub-continent and their culture.

Pakistani ideology is based on the fact that the


Muslims are a separate nation, having their own civilization, their own customs, their own culture, their own religion and a totally different way of life from Hindus. Muslims cannot be merged in any other nation because their philosophy of life is based on the principles of Islam.

Two Nation Theory


Pakistan ideology was based on the Two
Nation Theory, which meant that Muslims and Hindus are two separate nations and both nations are quite different from each other. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was the first Muslim leader who presented the idea of Two Nation Theory

The Hindus and Muslims, in spite of living together

for centuries could not forget their own individual cultures and civilizations and keep a distance from each other. They could not amalgamate in each others way of life to become one nation. The main reason for this difference between cultures, civilizations and lifestyle of Muslims and Hindus was the religion of Islam that cannot be merged in any other system. In Islam there is no one who could share the sovereignty of the Almighty God and to consider any one equal to God is the biggest sin. While, on the other hand Hinduism is based on the concept of multiple Gods. This is the main difference between Hindus and Muslims, how a nation who believes in oneness of God lives together with a nation who believes in multiplicity of God.

The Ideology of Pakistan has its roots deep in history.

The history of South Asia is largely a history of rivalry and conflict between the Hindus and Muslims of the region. Both communities have been living together in the same area since the early 8th century, since the advent of Islam in India. Yet, the two have failed to develop harmonious relations. In the beginning, one could find the Muslims and Hindus struggling for supremacy in the battlefield. Starting with the war between Muhammad bin Qasim and Raja Dahir in 712, armed conflicts between Hindus and Muslims run in thousands. Clashes between Mahmud of Ghazni and Jaypal, Muhammad Ghuri and Prithvi Raj, Babur and Rana Sanga and Aurangzeb and Shivaji are cases in point

When the Hindus of South Asia failed to

establish Hindu Badshahi through force, they opted for back door conspiracies. Bhagti Movement with the desire to merge Islam and Hinduism was one of the biggest attacks on the ideology of the Muslims of the region. Akbar's diversion from the main stream Islamic ideology was one of the Hindus' greatest success stories. However, due to the immediate counterattack by Mujaddid Alf Sani and his pupils, this era proved to be a short on.

British Regime

With the advent of the British rule in India

in 1858, Hindu-Muslim relations entered a new phase. The British brought with them a new political philosophy commonly known as 'territorial nationalism . Before the coming of the British, there was no concept of a 'nation' in South Asia and the region had never been a single political unit. The British attempt to weld the two communities in to a 'nation' failed. The British concept of a nation did not fit the religious-social system of South Asia.

On March 24, 1940, the Muslims finally

abandoned the idea of federalism and defined a separate homeland as their target. Quaid-i-Azam considered the creation of Pakistan a means to an end and not the end in itself. He wanted Pakistan to be an Islamic and democratic state. According to his wishes and in accordance with the inspirations of the people of Pakistan, the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan passed the Objectives Resolution.

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