Peace Building meeting in Faisalabad by PNI

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Pakistan: January 19, 2015. (PCP) On 18th January 2015, Peace for nation international (PNI) organized a peace building meeting to promote peace and social harmony at Chk # 279 R.B. Madina Abad, Jinnah town, Faisalabad. The meeting was joined by 50 people belong to different spheres of life. The purpose of the meeting was to underline the root causes of anti-peace activities and elements. There was an active participation by the community leaders include Mr. Imran Taija (X-Minority Counselor), Pastor Sohail, Mr. Ashraf and Kamran. They indicated some causes which need to address and eliminate for the development and promotion of peace and social harmony. Mr. Hashmat Barkat (founder & Chairman - PNI) expressed his views and termed the peace and tolerance as our basic need during a confrontational situation in the country. Participants shared that inflation, unemployment, unavailability of basic essentials of life include; cheap food items, Power, Gas and Petrol, are also the reasons behind the situation of insecurity in the society. They said that our current provincial and federal governments are busy at political confrontation and no more interested to solve the problems of common man. Government should take solid measures to provide basic rights, fundamental freedoms and fool proof security to its people. Government should take action against hate speeches, misuse of powers and all non-state actors who are promoting sectarianism in the country, they demanded. Mr. Hashmat Barkat further said that government should review the education policy to provide a syllabus consists of fundamental rights, peace and tolerance to educate our people to be peaceful and faithful citizens. People friendly policies should be made to provide timely justice with all essentials of life without any discrimination. Elimination of violence and corruption should be the priority by government, he demanded. Mr. ZafarIqbal (Program manager-PNI) shared that bad governance by non-faithful politicians who are working to promote their dear and near ones and their personal businesses. They have no secured future plan for our country. We are independent in agriculture and many natural resources but we are running our country by the loans on high markup by IMF and World Bank. We do not have a disaster management program for our people. Politicians are living luxurious life and people of Pakistan are dying due to inflation and high rate poverty. Many people are committing suicides because they don’t have to eat due unemployment, generated by shortfall of Gas and electricity. There is need to work together to get fundamental rights, financial security and long lasting peace, he added.

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