Pak needs to be 'assimilative' towards minorities: Advani
BJP leader L K Advani today said Pakistan can become a stable nation if it gives space to its minorities and endorsed a view that the impact of Islamism on "legislation and political life" of that country was far stronger than its thin support base there would justify.
"Islamism did not, and does not, have much popular support in Pakistan, as elections prove whenever they are held... but its impact on legislation and political life is far stronger than a thin support base would justify," Advani wrote in his latest blog quoting the book 'Tinderbox' by journalist M J Akbar.
Advani said India's ethos has always been "assimilative", whereas Pakistan's has been "exclusivist".
The BJP Parliamentary Party Chairman said the day Akbar's book was released, Governor of Pakistan's Punjab Salman Taseer was assassinated by security guard.
Taseer had invited the fanatics' ire because of his outspoken defence of a Christian woman Aasia Bibi currently facing the death penalty on charges of blasphemy.
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