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There is a pervasive belief, held more widely outside Pakistan than in the country, that Pakistan, with Israel and Iran, is one of three confessional states in the world; that, like Israel, its very origin was to fulfil a religious ideal, to create an Islamic state and Islamic society for Muslims of India. That has been the slogan of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the fundamentalist extreme right-wing party, since Pakistan was created. Interestingly enough it was not their slogan before the creation of Pakistan, for they had opposed the Pakistan movement. The regime of General Zia has declared likewise, that Pakistan was created to establish an Islamic state for Muslims of India. Lacking a popular mandate the military regime has sought its claim to legitimacy, if not its purpose, in divine ordinance.
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Alavi, H. (1988). Pakistan and Islam: Ethnicity and Ideology. In: Halliday, F., Alavi, H. (eds) State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19029-4_4
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