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Today, after decades of Islamisation at the hands of Pakistan’s Mullahs that went unchecked by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and later Zia ul Haq, Pakistan has become an outcast state there religious politics has proven to be divisive and detrimental to the plight of women, non-Muslim minorities and minority sects among Muslims. All of this could have been avoided by sticking to the secular principles of the Pakistani constitution, but that same constitution has been torn to shreds by successive politicians – including Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif – who found it expedient to play the ‘Islamic card’ whenever it suited them, just to garner some cheap votes at the elections. The rest, as they say, is history and that history now weighs heavily of Pakistan and its people.

every country plays the religioius card. you have a 'born-again' drunk living in the white house right now, who is also a fundamentalist christian. but these qoutes here are simply nothing more than Islam bashing. Pakistan's main problem is not 'islamization' its ethnic fueds, ethnic violence, and feudalistic practices that have nothing to do with Islam. If anything, Islam has always proven to be a unifying force. Pakistan is hardly Saudi Arabia, in fact if anything the law's of malaysia are match those of Pakistan.

To claim that minorities are not treated well, Let's take a look at India and Pakistan. In Pak religious minorities have seats in parliament reserved for them, the case cannot be said for India, where Muslims are a very huge minority. Second, Christians, and Hindus are not scapegoated in the paki media, or by politicians seeking to fan flames. While many in India argue that Pakistan was born out of the Muslim Leaguers fanning the flames of sectarian violence in the run up to partition, this is not the case in Pakistan.

However in India, Muslims, Christians, even Sikhs are victims of countless number of religioius bigotry, riots, and police harrassment. Anti-Terrorism laws, such as TADA were used and abused to harrass Muslims for decades. Muslims were even used as lab rats when subjected to medical tests and even forced sterlization during emergency rule of the 1970's. If one were to look at how minorities are treated in pakistan vs india, pakistan wins hands down.