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| Now Hazaras ask: Are we Pakistanis? | | |
Farooq Ganderbali
In May this year, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, posed a fundamental question to the government of Pakistan--Are the Hazaras not Pakistani citizens? This question has profound significance for the people of Pakistan, a large number of whom have recently been wondering whether they were Pakistanis at all.
The question is quite similar to the one which another judge some 68 years ago had asked; his question was: Who is a muslim? The question was posed in the backdrop of a bloody clash between Sunnis and Ahmadis in Lahore and other towns in Pakistan, merely four years after the country was created as an exclusive domain for Musli... |
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