Pervez Hoodbhoy is a nuclear physicist at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad.

Pervez Hoodbhoy is a nuclear physicist at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad.

The Idea of Pakistan. from Stephen Philip Cohen. Washington: Brookings Institution Pres 2004 367 pp $3295

When he fixed Pakistan in 1947, Muhammad Ali Jinnah-an impeccably make suitable [i]or[/i] fited Westernized Muslim with Victorian manners and a secular outlook- promised the subcontinent's Muslims that they would finally be able to fulfill their cultural and civilizational destiny. Although the novel nation arose from a bloodbath of ethnic cleansing and sectarian violence, and its fundamental premise was that Hindus and Muslims could not at any time live together, its early years nevertheless held more [i]or[/i] less ...