Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities

Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities

by Farahnaz Ispahani
Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities

Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities

by Farahnaz Ispahani

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Pakistan was carved out in 1947 to protect the subcontinent's largest religious minority. But soon after Independence, political, religious and social leaders proclaimed it an Islamic State.Purifying the Land of the Pure is an analysis of the country's policies towards its religious minority populations, as well as an attempt to set the record straight about why Pakistan was created and where it moved away from Jinnah's modern pluralist vision to that of a purely Sunni Islamic nation. Farahnaz Ispahani brings to the subject an uncommon combination: the rigour of a scholar and the ground-level experience of a parliamentarian. A crucial addition to the literature on Pakistan.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789351775539
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Publication date: 12/10/2015
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
File size: 533 KB

About the Author

Farahnaz Ispahani has been a leading voice for women and religious minorities in Pakistan for the past twenty-five years, first as a journalist, then as a member of Pakistan's National Assembly, and most recently as a scholar based in the United States. As advocate of Pakistan's return to democracy during the military regime of Pervez Musharraf, she served as a spokesperson and international media coordinator for the Pakistan Peoples Party, working alongside the late Benazir Bhutto. During her tenure in Parliament (2008-2012), she was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Committees and of the Women's Parliamentary Caucus. In 2013-2014, she served as a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In 2012, she was listed among Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers, as well as Newsweek Pakistan's Top 100 Women Who Matter.
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