I read with a great deal of surprise a JI leader’s statement that stated that Maulana Maududi had big role in framing the Objectives Resolution passed by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in March 1949. This is untrue. Maududi and the Jamat e Islami (founded in 1941) long remained inimical to the very idea of Pakistan and to various concepts of a progressive Islamic polity, as expressed in the ideology of Pakistan, as envisaged by the Quaid e Azam, Allama Iqbal and other senior Muslim League leaders. The staunch supporters of the Objectives Resolution were PM Liaquat Ali Khan, Sardar Abdul Rab Nishtar, Begum Shaista Ikramullah and Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and some others
It was not until the early 50s that Maududi began to accept the reality of Pakistan and its ideology and started to turn the JI into a political party and made several proposals of which two or three were accepted and incorporated in the Constitution of Pakistan 1956 (abrogated in 1958). The Pakistani nation should be aware of this distortion of our history and we must correct this.
Ayesha Sadozai
Islamabad
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