It would be interesting to note that there is a strong lobby of human rights activists and other liberal Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistani media who are indeed quite popular (for example, Mohammad Hanif ? see this – http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/international/pakistan-s-general-problem, Najam Sethi ? see this -? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz-aXacN_p4&feature=related, Hasan Nisar ? see this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17B5e9s_zZc, Nadeem Paracha ? see this – http://dawn.com/2012/02/09/also-pakistan-2/ and this – http://dawn.com/2012/09/27/also-pakistan-v/ and http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/10/We_Are_All_Malala?page=0%2C1 and Marvi Sarmad? – see this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENlWhhySHuU – to name only a few, and those interested can also watch videos of the Pakistani Punjabi music band Beygairat Brigade that is strongly wedded to liberal ideas, such as of their popular song ?Aalu Anday? – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpnwCPgH7g!) who are ever-ready to take up the cause of the religious minorities whenever they are wronged (this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG8FHh2qcrQ&feature=related is interesting in this connection) or condemn acts of terrorism by their countrymen (have a look at this article written by liberal Pakistani Muslim intellectual Irfan Husain shortly after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, published in the Pakistani newspaper ?Dawn? known for its liberal leanings – http://blog.panda.net.in/2008/12/facing-truth-by-irfan-husain-dawn-news.html? – unfortunately, the article isn?t opening on the Dawn website but for those doubting the authenticity, you can see it in the archives here – http://archives.dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/arc-mazdak.htm? – and this video of news anchor Kamran Khan – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVa8BO0X3zs, besides the book ‘Pakistan on the Brink’ by Ahmed Rashid) and even advocate friendship with India, and some of these liberals are making? a grassroot difference in transforming radicals (have a look at this article, which was published in the Washington Post and the author of which seems to be a non-Muslim Westerner – http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10/21/pakistans_most_powerful_weapon). Pakistani human rights activists have also come out in the open to strongly condemn the torture of Indian soldiers [for reference, please see this video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tsmJOoI4o8 (kindly watch it from the 6:46 point onwards)].
Their history textbooks indeed have had a lot of bias and distortion since the Zia-ul-Haq regime but not prior to that (even in India, the BJP saffronized the NCERT history textbooks, but that nowhere came close to what was done in Pakistan, and was, in any case, undone by UPA-I ? however, I must clarify that I am not an uncritical admirer or ardent basher of any political party), but liberal Pakistani Muslim intellectuals have very strongly condemned the same (for reference, please see these – http://news.monstersandcritics.com/education/news/article_1646412.php/Pakistan-s-education-system-a-breeding-ground-for-extremism,? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JQZHvX04k&feature=related, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djFgy-NflmM,??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNMP-1kmVNc&feature=player_embedded, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FBikPpC7T4&feature=related), emphasizing that they should take pride in their pre-Islamic past (for reference, please see this article in Dawn – http://dawn.com/2012/06/22/a-muslim-majority-indus-valley-civilization/) as also Indian freedom fighters from what is today Pakistan, like Bhagat Singh (for reference, please see this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2NbvLTq4qQ&feature=player_embedded, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lahore-chowk-named-after-Bhagat-Singh/articleshow/16621017.cms, http://shirazhassan.blogspot.in/2012/11/shaheed-bhagat-singh-seeking.html), and they have also rebutted the idea that India should be seen as a threat by Pakistan (please see this video of former air force chief of Pakistan – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K57q_914QAU ? it?s a must-watch!) and even emphasized that they are ethnically and culturally Indians and not Arabs and should accept this fact (for reference, please see this video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4f_GNLVJlM&feature=related) and still others have even ventured to argue that Muslim leaders who were Indian nationalists like Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan were better than the likes of Liyaqat Ali Khan (for reference, see this – http://dawn.com/2012/08/14/the-two-muslim-theory/), criticize Iqbal (for reference, see this – http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/10939/is-allama-iqbal-relevant-in-today%E2%80%99s-politics/) or even gone to the extent of bashing Jinnah in no uncertain terms (though even some of the previously cited articles/videos carry sometimes carry soft criticism of that man, here is one that bashes him in no uncertain terms – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIjydcEHnFA&feature=player_embedded, though many liberal Pakistani Muslims love Jinnah and argue that he wanted Pakistan to be a secular state, and this article subscribes to that school of thought –