- Author Name : Mir Ahmed Yar Khan Baluch
- Cover : Hard Back
You are free; you are free to go to your temples; you are free to go to your mosque or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed that has nothing to do with the fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one State ... Now, I think we should keep that in front of us as our ideal; and you will find that in course of time , Hindus would cease to be Hindus, and Muslim would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State..
The words were Jinnah's: the thought and belief were an inheritance from the Prophet who had said, thirteen centuries before: " All men are equal in the eyes of God. And your lives and your properties are all sacred; in no case should you attack each other's life and property. Today I trample under my feet all distinctions ofcaste, colour and nationality.