Title: Purifying the land of the pure : Pakistan's religious minorities /
Authors: Ispahani, Farahnaz,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Religious minorities Pakistan.; Politics and government.; Religious minorities; Pakistan Politics and government; Pakistan Politics and government; Pakistan
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Demography, state and religion -- Ideological state -- Militarism and national identity -- Balancing act : 1972 -- 1977 -- Islamization :1977 -- 1988 -- Global Jihad and Pakistan's minorities, 1988 -1999 -- Militancy, terrorism and sectarianism, 1999 onwards.