Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Chair will organise one-day international conference on Vision of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Democracy and Prosperity in the last week of January 2012 at Sindh University and scholars from country and abroad will be invited to attend the conference and present their papers.
The decision in this regard was taken by first meeting of Board of Governors of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Chair University of Sindh presided over by Chairman Senate and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Chair Farooq H.Naek here on Saturday.
The meeting was attended by Speaker Provincial Assembly Sindh Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Justice Agha Rafiq Ahmed Khan Chief Justice Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan, Principal Secretary of Governor Sindh Mumtaz Rehman, Dr Mumtaz Bhutto, Federal Director General Culture Abdul Kareem Ansari, Director General Culture Sindh Muhammad Ramzan and others attended the meting. The Pro vice-chancellors of University's campuses Dr Raffia Ahmed Shaikh, Dr Imdad Ali Ismaili and Dr Muhammad Hussain Shaikh also attended the meeting. The meeting offered fateha for Begum Nusrat Bhutto and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. The meeting approved to appoint a working committee to monitor the implementation of decisions of the BOG and report to the meeting of the Board of Governors.
Speaking on this occasion the Chairman Senate Farooq H.Naek about establishment of Chair said that there can be no greater honour than carrying forward the philosophy and mission of visionary leader Shaheed Benazir Bhutto who undoubtedly a colossus Asian Leader with indomitable courage to lay down her life for the liberation of the masses. Farooq Naek said that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto was not an ordinary person; she was an institution and a great proponent of progressive thinking, social uplift and democratic rule and added that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto promoted the soft image of Pakistan at international level.
Farooq H. Naek said that as Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, tried to spread education among girls, built tens of thousands of schools and recruited one hundred thousand teachers, seventy thousand of whom were women and added that she appointed women to superior judiciary, believing that gender equality was essential to the dispensation of justice. She thought and implemented her idea of a bank for women run by women, Farooq H.Naek said. He further said that Government led by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto made Pakistan polio free for the first time and lifted ban on women in sports.
He said that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto's life was highly inspiring and moving tale of incessant struggle, pain of personal losses and supreme sacrifices and an unconquerable will to achieve her lofty goals for the betterment of her countrymen not matter what the cost. Farooq H.Naek said that Shaeed Benazir Bhutto firmly believed that reconciliation was necessary to promote and sustain democracy in Pakistan in the wake of successive authoritarian rule and added that towards this end she signed the historic charter of democracy with PML-N leader Mian Nawaz Sharif. This landmark agreement is anchored in the notion of political reconciliation and in spirit of futuristic co-operation.
Naek said that for Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, democracy was the best revenge. He added that it wasn't just political reconciliation within Pakistan that she cherished. Her vision of reconciliation was much broader and global in nature and very far reaching Naek said and added that she also aimed to trace the root causes and potential solutions to the crisis between the Muslim world and the West. Farooq H. Naek said that establishment of Chair to facilitate research on the life and role of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto in the areas of democratic governance, human rights and socio-economic justice and promotion of international and regional peace and stability is the step in the right direction to achieve these goals. The vice-chancellor University of Sindh and Co-chairman of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Chair Dr Nazir A. Mughal speaking on this occasion highlighted progress of the chair.
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