Return To Jinnah's Vision Of Religious Freedom For All People of Pakistan

[Jedi]

Pakistan's Founding Father and 1st President's Inaugural Address to
the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan at Karachi August 11, 1947

http://pakistanspace.tripod.com/archives/47jin11.htm

If you change your past and work together in a spirit that everyone of
you, no matter to what community he belongs, no matter what relations
he had with you in the past, no matter what is his color, caste or
creed, is first, second and last a citizen of this State with equal
rights, privileges and obligations, there will be no end to the
progress you will make.

I cannot emphasize it too much. We should begin to work in that spirit
and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and
minority communities, the Hindu community and the Muslim community -
because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabis, Shias,
Sunnis and so on and among the Hindus you have Brahmins, Vashnavas,
Khatris, also Bengalees, Madrasis, and so on - will vanish. Indeed if
you ask me this has been the
biggest hindrance in the way of India to attain the freedom and
independence and but for this we would have been free peoples long
long ago. No power can hold another nation, and specially a nation of
400 million souls in subjection; nobody could have conquered you, and
even if it had happened, nobody could have continued its hold on you
for any length of time but for this. Therefore, we must learn a lesson
from this. You are free; you are
free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques 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
business of the State.

[Jedi]

Here is the correct link to this most important speech
http://www.insaf.pk/Media/InsafBlog/tabid/168/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1553/Mr-Jinnahs-presidential-address-to-the-Constituent-Assembly-of-Pakistan-August-1947.aspx