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===Memory and legacy=== {{Main|Minar-e-Pakistan|Tomb of Allama Iqbal|Mazar-e-Quaid}} [[File:Minar e Pakistan.jpg|thumb|374x374px|[[Minar-e-Pakistan]], where the bill of [[Lahore Resolution]] was passed on 22-24 March 1940]] The Pakistan Movement has a central place in Pakistan's memory. The founding story of the Pakistan Movement is not only covered in school and university [[Pakistani textbooks controversy|textbooks]] but also in innumerable monuments.<ref name="Lexington, 2004">{{cite book|editor-last=Saha|editor-first=Santosh C.|title=Religious fundamentalism in the contemporary world: critical social and political issues|year=2004|location=Lanham, MD|publisher=Lexington|isbn=978-0-7391-0760-7}}</ref> Almost all key events are covered in Pakistan's textbooks, literature, and novels as well.<ref name="Lexington, 2004"/> Thus, the [[Fourteenth of August]] is one of major and most celebrated [[national day]]s in Pakistan.<ref name="Tribune Express 2013">{{cite news|title=Independence day: Hope, joy and mausoleum climbing|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/590123/pakistan-independence-day-live-updates/|access-date=8 February 2014|newspaper=Tribune Express 2013|date=14 August 2013|archive-date=5 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205082217/http://tribune.com.pk/story/590123/pakistan-independence-day-live-updates/|url-status=live}}</ref> To many authors and historians, Jinnah's legacy is Pakistan.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mohiuddin|first=Yasmeen Niaz|title=Pakistan : a global studies handbook|year=2007|publisher=ABC-Clio|location=Santa Barbara, Calif. [u.a.]|isbn=978-1-85109-801-9}}</ref> The [[Minar-e-Pakistan]] is a monument which has attracted ten thousand visitors.<ref name="Gohar Publications,">{{cite book|last=Siddiqui|first=S.A.|title=Social Studies|year=2012|publisher=Gohar Publications|location=Lahore, Punjab|isbn=978-969-526-022-7}}</ref> The ''Minar-e-Pakistan'' still continues to project the memory to the people to remember the birth of Pakistan.<ref name="Gohar Publications,"/> Jinnah's estates in Karachi and Ziarat has attracted thousands visitors.<ref name="Express Tribune, Mulk">{{cite news|author=Muhammad Adil Mulk|title=Being Jinnah|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/481577/being-mr-jinnah/|access-date=9 February 2014|newspaper=Express Tribune, Mulk|date=23 December 2012|archive-date=21 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221232709/http://tribune.com.pk/story/481577/being-mr-jinnah/|url-status=live}}</ref> Historian of Pakistan, [[Vali Nasr]], argues that the [[universalism#Islam|Islamic universalism]] had become a main source of the Pakistan Movement that shaped patriotism, meaning, and nation's birth.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nasr|first=Vali|title=Islamic Leviathan : Islam and the Making of State Power|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford U.K.|isbn=978-0-19-803296-0}}</ref> To many Pakistanis, Jinnah's role is viewed as a modern [[Moses]]-like leader;<ref name="Washington Post, 2010">{{cite news|last=Ahmad|first=Akbar|title=Thomas Jefferson and Mohammed Ali Jinnah: Dreams from two founding fathers|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070202442.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=4 July 2010|access-date=9 February 2014|archive-date=30 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630215541/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070202442.html|url-status=live}}</ref> whilst many other founding fathers of the nation-state also occupy extremely respected places in the hearts of the people of Pakistan.<ref>{{cite book|last=Enver|first=E.H. |year=1990 |title=The modern Moses: A brief biograhpy [sic] of M.A. Jinnah |publisher=Jinnah Memorial Institute |pages=164 pages |oclc=24361532}}</ref>
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