The Islamization of Pakistan's Foreign Policy

Pakistan was founded in 1947 to provide a homeland for the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, a homeland in which they could live free from the domination of the Hindu majority of the region. The design of the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, was to create a Muslim country in which a Muslim majority would be free to exercise its religion, live according to its customs, and develop its culture, but also one in which minorities would enjoy equality of rights and citizenship. His purpose was not to create an Islamic state, but Pakistan has over the years diverged from the course on which Jinnah set it and assumed most of the formal characteristics of an