The Federal Minister for Education Javed Ashraf Qazi has said that Pakistan is moving towards a modern progressive Islamic country by following the enlightened and moderate vision of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah. He was addressing a two-day national conference on "Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah: his thoughts and contribution" organised by Quaid-e-Azam University here on Thursday.
The minister said that Islam has spread throughout the world not by force, but through the wise and enlightened principles of Prophet (PBUH) and his true followers, and added that there is no place for extremism in Islam.
The minister said that after 9/11 in 2001, Pakistan has emerged as a very important country both in the region as well as in world politics. He praised President Pervez Musharraf for tackling the situation after 9/11 by taking judicious and rational decisions.
He said that government is very much guided by the golden ideas of Quaid-e-Azam to remain peaceful and face boldly the enemy in the garb of terrorism and to check those elements who are playing havoc with the religion, by teaching sectarian and extremist.
He pointed out that to be true to the spirit and thoughts of Quaid-e-Azam, General Pervez Musharraf has rightly pleaded the concept of democracy and welfare.
He lamented that few elements, which strongly opposed the creation of separate homeland for Muslims in the subcontinent, are now dictating us what to do and what not.
He said that those who oppose the Aga Khan and his education board, should know the Aga Khan's sincerity with Pakistan, who donated lot of funds when Pakistan was not in a position to survive in the initial days of its creation and added that Aga Khan has a significant contribution in creation of Pakistan being the first President of Muslim League.
Qazi quoted the example of extremism in the Northern Areas where all government schools have been closed down in the district Gilgit for last six months due to sectarian violence.
Speaking on the occasion Usman A. Ghulam Issani the Vice Chancellor of Quaid-e-Azam University said that it is an era of globalisation, where our culture and history need to be preserved, besides development in the field of science and technology.
Brigadier Noor Hussain (Retd) said that the impression about the creation of a theoretical state by Quaid was wrong and misperception.
He said that Quaid always wanted to see Pakistan as a modern Islamic democratic state exercising social justice.
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