What Pope could've taught Gen Munir
Dipankar Gupta taught for nearly three decades in the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
To function as a nation-state, Pakistan need not inject hate into Islam
Pope Francis will be buried today but his footprint in history will stay forever. In fact, Pakistan's army chief Pope's message and delete, delete, delete, his Muslims-are-not-Hindus hate message. Of course, Muslims aren't Hindus, nor are they Jews, Christians, or Buddhists or, whatever. Shias aren't Sunnis either. Yet, as Pope Francis reminded us, we are 'one' across religions.
In saying this, Pope fast forwarded the Catholics into the 21st century by holding firm to Jesus's core message.
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