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Jinnah and the Jinx of secularism
Sep 18 2009, Sarthak

“I think you will find that in course of time Hindus would cease to be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the State...

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