Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, had a vision of Pakistan as a secular state where the religion of any individual would have "nothing to do with the business of the State.
As the race for the coveted position of mayor in the southern port city of Pakistan gets under way, a Pakistani religious party that won second place in the recent local government elections in Karachi is being courted by other political groups.
The Foreign Office (FO) in Pakistan strongly condemned a terrorist attack in Balochistan's Panjgur district on Wednesday evening in which four security personnel were killed.