{"id":24343,"date":"2013-04-05T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drishtikone.com\/?p=24343"},"modified":"2013-04-05T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:18:25","slug":"flying-pakistani-flag-in-us-and-canada-should-be-illegal-what-is-pakistan-and-where-is-it-headed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2013\/04\/flying-pakistani-flag-in-us-and-canada-should-be-illegal-what-is-pakistan-and-where-is-it-headed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Flying Pakistani flag in US and Canada should be illegal&#8221;: What is Pakistan and where is it headed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_24346\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24346\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/2013\/04\/tarek.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24346 \" alt=\"Tarek Fatah\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com.S3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/sites\/356\/2013\/04\/tarek-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tarek Fatah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>In this discussion, which started from the article of Tarek Fatah on why flying the Pakistani flag in Canada (on a Govt building during a function) was illegal to the history and reasoning of why and how Pakistan was formed. \u00a0How the \u201cAnglo-American Enterprise\u201d, as Tarek calls it, was instrumental in the formation of Pakistan. \u00a0And it had nothing to do with Islam.<\/p>\n<p>He is writing a book which will touch upon why all the terrorism emanating from Pakistan and happening in other countries can be directly traced to Jinnah\u2019s two nation theory and the kind of actions that the Muslims took in creating Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever has read my articles on Islam and Muslims must have noticed how I repeatedly say that the war in Islam is the war between Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb (and that Aurangzeb has always won). \u00a0[See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/are-there-inherent-pitfalls-in-soul-searching-in-pakistani-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Are there Inherent Pitfalls in Soul Searching within Pakistani Society?<\/a>\u00a0where I am starting from where Tarek Fateh ends]. \u00a0 So, it was interesting that Tarek Fatah uses the same analogy and idea to discuss the future of Pakistan!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" 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