Speakers at workshop decry policies aimed at damaging pluralistic society
Karachi
June 7, 2021
For a socially cohesive and religiously tolerant society to take shape in Pakistan, the young generation must learn the skills to think critically and structure their thoughts on the basis of logic and reasoning.
Dr Syed Jaffar Ahmed, former head of the Pakistan Study Centre at the University of Karachi, said this as he addressed a workshop on interfaith harmony in Karachi organised by the Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS), an Islamabad-based research and advocacy think tank.
He added that scientific thinking had revolutionised societies and taken human progress to unprecedented heights. Journalist Wusatullah Khan said that just because the fundamental rights and freedoms were mentioned in the constitution did not mean that the state would readily offer them in a plate. In the absence of accountability and vigilance by the citizens, states tended to encroach upon people’s right
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Leaders of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states, observer states, and dialogue partners as well as representatives of non-governmental friendship organizations, have held in-depth discussions on topics such as think tank exchanges, sister city cooperation, health, rural development and poverty reduction, high-quality connectivity, and new media training.
Speakers discuss challenges to regional peace
Islamabad
May 28, 2021
Islamabad : The Centre for Afghanistan, Middle East & Africa (CAMEA) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) had a Panel Discussion on ‘Pakistan-China-Afghanistan: Prospects of Trilateral Cooperation for Regional Stability.’
The distinguished speakers included: Ambassador Masood Khalid, former ambassador to China, Ambassador Omar Samad, Nonresident Senior Fellow Atlantic Council and Prof. Lin Minwang, deputy director of the Center for South Asian Studies and Assistant to the Dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, China, says press release. Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Director General, ISSI, Ambassador Khalid Mahmood, chairman ISSI and Dr Talat Shabbir, director China-Pakistan Study Center (CPSC) at ISSI took part in the discussion.