A. After some debate, the first Constitution in 1956 proclaimed Pakistan as an "Islamic" state.
B. The principal institution of state, and the economy, remained largely in the control of the secular tendency until, through racist prejudice, arrogance and awesome military incompetence it was unable to protect the integrity of the nation.
C. No one of cared (or dared) to examine what it might mean.
D. The crises of 1969 - 1971, and the second partition of the subcontinent, which created a Muslim - majority Bangladesh out of a Muslim majority Pakistan, forced Pakistan to introspect deeply about its identity.
E. It was an uneasy compromise.
F. Perhaps the last true secularist of this Islamic sate was the Western - Oriented - Gentlemen Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who came to power in 1971, preached emancipation from poverty and did not mind a spot of whisky in the evening.
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