Dear Balochis, come sit with us

Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has announced to allocate one seat for the students of Balochistan in each department of the varsity and has said that the PU will bear all their expenses.
He was addressing a seminar on “Balochistan – Problems and Solutions” organised by Punjab University and Academic Staff Association on Tuesday. Senator Mir Hasil Bazenjo, former senator Abdul Hayee Balcoh, former Military Training Centre DG General (r) Javed Iqbal, All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association Federation President Kaleem Baloch, Ex-chief secretary Hakeemullah Baloch, political analyst Mowahid Hussain, political analysts Asad ur Rehman and Dr Mujahid Mansoor, Chaudhry Akram, Academic Staff Association President Prof Dr Amir Sarwar, Dr Shaukat Ali, Javed Sami and senior faculty members attended the meeting. He said the seminar had helped remove misperceptions and people should work collectively to solve the issues of Balochistan. He said lack of education was the cause of all problems of Pakistan. He said the PU would launch a campaign for promotion of education in Pakistan. He said Baloch students studying at PU’s College of Art and Design had the best creative skills. He urged all the segments of life to be united for allocation of four percent of GDP towards education. Senator Mir Hasil Bazenjo said since sixty years, the people of Punjab were being wrongly propagated about Balochis that they were traitor and the same propaganda was in Balochistan against Punjabis that they were eating the resources of the country. He said the establishment was causing harm to Pakistan but unfortunately that responsibility had wrongly been associated with Punjabis through propaganda. He said none of the five movements launched for the rights of Baloch people were for the freedom of Balochistan. He said Punjab was the province who faced maximum discriminations in the last 60 years. He said after the killing of Nawab Akber Bugti, some young Balochis started killing Punjabis, a move that was widely condemned. He said Punjabis residing in Quetta were in large number.
Kaleem Ullah Baloch said the problems of Balochistan were not created by Balochis and that was the responsibility of the state to organise its machinery. He said that the decisions regarding Balochistan were taken without taking local leadership into confidence.
Mowahid Hussain said the problem of Balochistan was a problem of national unity and the poor and corrupt leadership had worsened the situations. Political analyst Asad ur Rehman said understanding of the history of Balochistan was a must to resolve its problems. Gen (r) Javed Iqbal said the civil government of Balochistan should use 14 billion rupees given in “Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan” and if the government did not consume it, then the people should ask their Balochi rulers about it. He said that a main problem was that there was a lack of knowledge of the psychology, geography and culture of Balochis. He said the problems of Balochistan could be resolved through political, legal and social thinking instead of military thinking. He said Balochis should join Balochistan police and levies to improve law and order situation in Balochistan. He said that Army was playing positive role in Balochistan as well and over 27 thousands Balochi students were studying in Army schools. He said that the tribes that were not part of provincial assembly should come forward and represent people in the parliament and be a part of mainstream.
PU VC to preside seminar on Shah Hussain
PU Department of Punjabi will organise a seminar on ‘Shah Hussain’ on Wednesday, April 18 (today) at 9:30am at Sherani Hall Oriental College (Old Campus). Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran will preside over the seminar while Pakistan Punjabi Adbi Board Secretary Parveen Malik, BISE Secretary Dr Razzaq Shahid and others will also speak the occasion.