Jinnah’s Pakistan: A Secular Pakistan?

The discussion explored paradoxes of religion, secularism, and politics in Pakistan, taking a historical view of the interaction of forces from a wide variety of ideological streams and their contribution to shaping contemporary Pakistani cultural, political, educational, and legal discourse, as well as electoral politics, and civil-military relations.

Participants: Academics Zahra Sabri (Lecturer, Comparative Humanities, Habib University) and Dr SherAli Tareen (Professor of Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College, USA); Lawyer Mohammad Jibran Nasir (Political Activist & Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan), and (Director, Shehri Pakistan & Puffball Studios)

Venue: The Second Floor, Karachi
Date: Dec 25, 2024 | Jinnah Day

This is an independently organised panel discussion. Our thanks to the organisers for allowing Pakistan Academics’ Collective permission to platform the video on our newly launched YouTube channel.