The youth of Pakistan deserve role models like Ms Jinnah who, unlike Ayub’s titles, earned the name Madar-e-Millat. She was a humanitarian who worked to resettle female refugees from India; an advocate for democracy against an authoritarian regime; a leader who saw the plight of the people of East Pakistan at the hands of the West before 1971 brought it to the forefront.

Statues that celebrate racism and colonialism should not occupy public spaces. If needed, they can always be moved to museums where they can be analysed according to their proper historical context. They should not be glaring down on people from public squares as domineering symbols of a racist past.