Islam in Pakistan

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"Any discussion of Islamic fundamentalism in today's Pakistan must be seen within a more general context typical of many modern Muslim states trying to develop their independent political, social and economic structures within the guidelines left to them on one hand by the traditional tenets of the Islamic faith and on the other hand by the much more recent legacy of Western colonialism. What is, or rather, what should be, in the final analysis, a modern Muslim state? Nowhere in the Muslim world would a policy which tries to imitate blindly the Western model be successful. On the other hand, an equally blind attempt at returning to a supposedly pure pre-colonial Islamic system would find a host of resistances within society--and would create no few enemies abroad.

Pakistan is considered by all standards a moderate Muslim.."

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