Interactive session

LAHORE The Centre for Governance and Policy, Information Technology University (ITU), Punjab, organised an interactive session on Pakistan with Professor Yunas Samad, professor of South Asian Studies at Bradford University, UK. Professor Samad said 'Muslim Salariat', the educated and professional Muslims, were the pioneers of Independence Movement for Pakistan. Pakistan was created by the ‘Muslim Salariat’ who emerged out of a minority rights discourse, and focused on a broad rights-based platform.
He said leading a scattered nation and getting them an independent country was not easy. The citizens of the nation cannot be passive observers in their country, otherwise, the state will be taken over by a few and the nation-building process compromised. He said there were only two ways of dealing with difference, e.g kill all those who disagree, or negotiate with them. Pakistanis have already faced killings and division so it is time for us to negotiate our mutual existence and shun the way of violence to achieve national unity, he added.