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Ramadan at Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan, 1997

"Bound by common belief, Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan at Lahore's Badshahi Mosque. Born when Britain partitioned India in 1947, Pakistan gave Muslims a homeland and haven apart from Hindus. 'We are different beings,' said Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding father. 'Our names, our clothes, our foods. ... We challenge each other at every point of the compass.'"

—From "The Promise of Pakistan," October 1997, National Geographic magazine

Photograph by Ed Kashi