What did Muhammad Ali Jinnah envision for Pakistan, and how closely has the country’s constitutional development followed that vision? These questions formed the basis of a wide-ranging conversation with barrister, writer and Supreme Court advocate Asad Rahim Khan, who teaches constitutional law and Pakistan’s political and constitutional history at LUMS. 

Discussing Jinnah’s vision of the state, Khan argued that the historical record does not fit neatly into the categories of either a secular state or a theocracy. He pointed to Jinnah’s opposition to rule by “priests with a divine mission” and his emphasis on freedom of religious expression. According to Khan, pluralism,........

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