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2013-04-06 India-Pakistan

Pakistan officials bar candidates using rarely used religious rule

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 I think they should drop articles 62 and 63 of their constitution . The problem is right there . Crazy notion , I know ;)

Posted by Foxy 2013-04-06 10:38|| 2013-04-06 10:38|| Front Page Top

#2 It appears that at least one candidate was disqualified because of inability to show circumcision in the proper Islamic fashion.

Posted by john frum 2013-04-06 10:46|| 2013-04-06 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 The journalist Ayaz Amir was disqualified for insufficient adherence to the ideology of Pakistan.

Posted by john frum 2013-04-06 10:47|| 2013-04-06 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Writing stuff like this gets you banned from elections in Pakistan

But to recap the usual factors held responsible for the founding of Pakistan, Islam was not in danger in pre-1947 India. Indeed, considering the sectarian violence and religious bigotry we face today, it was in better health then. Nor was democracy the issue because even if partition had not happened, India was getting democracy once the British left. The Indian Independence Act promised that.

So what was the compelling reason for the Muslims to insist on a separate homeland especially when there was no going around the uncomfortable fact that, no matter how generously the frontiers of the new state were drawn, an uncomfortably large number of Muslims would remain in India?

The purpose of Pakistan, transcending anything to do with safeguarding Islam or promoting democracy, was to create conditions for the Muslims of India, or those who found themselves in the new state, to recreate the days of their lost glory.

Posted by john frum 2013-04-06 10:50|| 2013-04-06 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 a candidate be a "good Moslem of integrity and honesty"

I'd make a snide remark about the oxymoronity of that statement but substitute 'person' for Moslem and it would seem equally unlikely, even here.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-04-06 11:00|| 2013-04-06 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 "a candidate be a "good Moslem of integrity and honesty'"

So nobody's running?

Posted by Barbara 2013-04-06 14:10|| 2013-04-06 14:10|| Front Page Top

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