Seven Decades Have Passed Yet Pakistan Could Not Become What the Founder Envisioned – Leader of the Shia Nation, Pakistan, Allama Sajid Naqvi
Islamabad, September 10, 2025 – The Leader of the Shia Nation of Pakistan, Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi, said that the Founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, was a great leader who is born only once in centuries. Through a passionate public struggle, he succeeded in creating a free and sovereign state. “Regretfully, today Pakistan is besieged not only by internal and external threats but also by the lowest literacy rate and deep-rooted social evils. Basic rights are nowhere to be found,” he lamented.
Expressing his views on the 77th death anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam, he said: “Jinnah entrusted us with a free and independent homeland, but today we must ask ourselves what we have done with this sacred trust. Seven decades have passed, yet we failed to make Pakistan the independent, self-reliant, and developed nation he envisioned—a Pakistan that was supposed to serve as a laboratory of Islam and a beacon for the world.”
He added that instead of fulfilling that mission, the country has been surrendered to foreign debts and internal strife. “The homeland which should have been leading in implementing Islamic laws, ensuring fundamental rights, and meeting the basic needs of its people, and which should have been the powerful voice of the oppressed in Palestine and Kashmir—has instead fallen prey to class disparity, lack of justice, extremism, and the prioritization of personal desires and political interests over national interests. Those who claimed to defend the people’s rights left them in poverty, backwardness, and deprivation.”
Allama Naqvi stressed that to make Quaid’s Pakistan internally strong, stable, and prosperous, it is necessary for rulers and those in authority to distinguish between right and wrong, oppressors and oppressed, extremists and peace-lovers. “As long as unjust policies of false balance continue, the dream of national service and safeguarding the state’s security will never be realized,” he warned.
He concluded by emphasizing that to join the ranks of developed nations, Pakistan must uphold constitutional supremacy and rule of law, introduce genuine reforms in the education system, ensure the protection of fundamental rights, and place national interests above all other considerations.
