TEDxLahore - Saima Zaidi - Reading visual culture in Pakistan

[devilninjas]

talking for Pakistan, where 11% ppl know english (tht too not fluently) ! bravo!

[aenematica]

good research!

[jaanusgirl]

I'm sorry, but I had to laugh at the last bit about Pakistan being a place of diversity, inclusion and unity. The minority population in Pakistan has steadily decreased over the years...it has not been a very welcoming or tolerant country since Zia changed the constitution and radicalized it from a secular nation.

[akheR666]

@jaanusgirl Minority decreased because of East Pakistan becoming Bangladesh (had a lot of Hindus) and Partition before, and Pakistan has never been a 'secular' state.

[jaanusgirl]

@akheR666 - Actually, at the time of partition, there were more Muslims in East Pakistan (55%) than West Pakistan (45%). That is also the reason why Sheikh Mujibur-Rehman won the majority vote in 1970, which caused West Pakistan to panic that they would lose power and Yayah Khan had him assassinated.

And Jinnah wanted a secular Pakistan and said so time and again. The reason to separate may have been religion, but the intention was always to be secular, on both sides.

[akheR666]

@jaanusgirl I didn't say that the majority was Hindu, bit it had a lot of Hindus, which counted in the decrease; I'm sure that we can say the same of East Punjab, whose Muslims went to Pakistan (West Punjab), as much as today's Pakistani Sikhs and Hindus abandoned the said West Punjab region.

And what I meant was that Pakistan was never, de facto, a secular state, but what Zia-ul-Haq did, was to Islamicize it even more (the controversial Hudud laws.)

But, yes, Jinnah wanted a secular state.

[jaanusgirl]

@akheR666 - I didn't mean to imply that there were a lot of Hindus in Pakistan (East or West) who were very few (compared to the minority ratio in India) to begin with. What I meant was that as far as the two Pakistans were concerned, the population in East Pakistan was the majority. It is possible there was a larger proportion of Hindus in East Pakistan as well, however, it didn't become so fundamental or a theocracy of sorts as West Pakistan did...yes, because of Zia.

[colraf]

A must talk for all Pakistani Brand Managers.