PU lecture

LAHORE
The Punjab University Pakistan Study Centre (PSC) organised a special lecture in connection with Pakistan Day.
Humboldt University, Germany’s Prof Dr Bettina Robotka was the keynote speaker while Dean Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Director PSC Prof Dr Massarrat Abid, faculty members and students from various departments also participated in the event.
According to a press release issued here Friday, Dr Bettina Robotka raised an optimistic version about the future of Pakistan. She said that the country was passing through a better situation after so many challenging conditions and military operations.
However, she said, the country was still facing many problems like extremism, radicalism etc while sectarianism was the most dangerous phenomenon.
She stressed the need for accommodating diversified cultural, ethnic and religious identities.
She said the founder of Pakistan had visualized a pluralistic and decentralized state but the following decades witnessed an opposite trend of centralization of power at federal level.
She was of the view that there should be autonomy at provincial level and the federal government should come forward to bring the federating units at a par with each other in terms of development and prosperity.
In her address, Dr Massarrat Abid highlighted various problems hindering the process of nation building in Pakistan and called for tolerance and pluralism as the solution.