KARACHI: The Pakistani nation rejects extremism and terrorism and all minorities have equal rights and freedom in the country.
This was stated by the Sindh Minister for Education Jam Mehtab Dahar while addressing a conference on ‘Diversity and Peace: Challenges to Social Discourse’ on Wednesday.
The two-day moot was organised by Karachi University’s (KU) Faculty of Social Sciences at the campus.
The minister said that the Pakistani nation has rejected extremism and terrorism and this conference gives a clear message to the world that there is no place of extremism in our society.
“We must transform our society into a peaceful and tolerant one. All minorities have equal rights and freedom in the country,” he said. “Academicians and students have this responsibility of promoting the message of peace and soft image of Pakistan and we aim to promote peace through diversity,” he added.
He also congratulated Professor Dr Muhammad Ahmed Qadri for organising this conference to promote the message of peace and diversity while promoting the soft image of Pakistan in the world. On the second day of the moot, various scholars and researchers presented their research papers.
In his research paper on Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia, Syed Jazib Shamim from KU’s Department of History said that nuclear arms race in the subcontinent was initiated by India having evil designs against Pakistan and to try to acquire regional supremacy.
KU Department of Geography Assistant Professor Dr Salman Zubair, and KU’s Computer Science Department Assistant Professor Syed Asim Ali, while presenting their papers, said that public transport system is serious, but ignored, social challenge of Karachi.
Sharing their research, they said that results show that there are very few public buses in the city which transport thousands of commuters, causing serious problems of overburden. They strongly recommended that a mass transit system is required to tackle the serious social challenges of the transport system of Karachi.
