On August 11, the state once again pledged to uphold the rights of Pakistan's minorities, with President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif paying tribute to their contributions on National Minorities Day. The date recalls Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's landmark speech to the Constituent Assembly in 1947, in which he envisioned a Pakistan where religion would have no bearing on citizenship or the rights that flow from it. It is a vision that remains........

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