"While the landlords and capitalists allowed the clergy to make Pakistan a religious state, the clergy allowed the landlords guaranteed property rights and the capitalists unbridled control over the economy. Theocracy and landlordism/capitalism are the two pillars of Pakistan and Bangladesh."
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Akbar, M. J. India: The Siege Within. London, 1985 p 31, quoted in Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, 1995. p 322
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