Maulana Abul kalam Azad's every single Prediction is true about Pakistan

Maulana abul kalam Azad's, was a key Muslim supporter of Congress and “United India” who later on became the Minister of Education of India. Here is an excellent interview with an Urdu magazine in 1946 on the state of Indian Islam on several dimensions, obviously this was a year before the creation of Pakistan and the independence of India. He was a polymath and his interview is shocking in its prescience and capturing the situation so well. He gives a very good synopsis of the opposition of the “moderate” religious opposition to Pakistan at the time and was its most vocal and articulate opponent.

He felt that right from its inception, Pakistan will face some very serious problems.Below is the summary of what he had predicted.

1. The incompetent political leadership will pave the way for military dictatorship as it has happened in many Muslim countries.
2. The heavy burden of foreign debt.
3. Absence of friendly relationship with neighbors and the possibility of armed conflict.
4. Internal unrest and regional conflicts.
5. The loot of national wealth by the new rich and industrialists of Pakistan.
6. The apprehension of class war as a result of exploitation by the new rich.
7. The dissatisfaction and alienation of the youth from religion and the collapse of the theory of Pakistan.
8. The conspiracies of the international powers to control Pakistan.

In this situation, the stability of Pakistan will be under strain and the Muslim countries will be in no position to provide any worthwhile help. The assistance from other sources will not come without strings and it will force both ideological and territorial compromises.