Are Pakistanis Muslim first or Pakistani first?

Yesterday I was watching -Khabarnak- on Geonews hosted by Naeem Bukhari, suddenly he refer to the participants of the show and asks," if we are Pakistani first or Muslim first? In Mr. Naeem Bukharis point of view, we were and are Pakistani first and Muslim later, which was absolutely wrong and misguided point of view and an effort to misguide and impose wrong conception on participants, which can suffer to any length just to have their way into show and are not in power to dare challenge the host or Geonews-Janggroup.

To strengthen his imposition on viewers he refers Arab nationalism, and tells viewers that the Arabs call themselves Arab and not Muslim first,which is somehow correct,because they were Arab first and become Muslim later. But after the emergence of Islam, the Arabs shelved their national pride and became part of Muslim ummah.

Now they were Muslim first and Arab second,but Arab revolt against Ottoman caliphate under the banner of colonialism and imperialistic powers turned them nationalists and nationalism, which from that day toady taking toll of Muslim lives and properties and Muslim nations around the world are nothing but a scene of chaos, anarchy, wars and destruction.

I like to tell Mr. Naeem Bukhari and Geonews, that we were Muslim first and Pakistani later, because need to be Pakistanis arisen only because we were Muslim and Muslim culture, civilization, language, dress code, food culture,demography and dominance were under threat by Hindu extremists and Hindu culture and politics.

If we were not Muslim first then why should we separate us from mainland India. Why we sacrificed millions of Muslim lives and properties to become independent?

Nationalism is our death and chaos and Muslim unity or Ummah is our life and success, whenever we drift away from the concept of ummah, we will suffer and we are suffering since the Advent of Nationalism in Muslim world.

If nationalism was the salient feature of a country then what was wrong with Indian nationalism, why we opted to quit our roots to become Pakistanis, which itself is Sanskrit word for muslim.Islam abhors nationalism and make people one nation one ummah regardless of their color, race, or lingual differences.