KU youth spurns at US encroachment in Balochistan
Karachi: The second in series of the Youth Awareness Seminars arranged by Pakistan People’s Party Shaheed Bhutto group on 25 February 2012 at 71 Clifton was an emphatic effort to get the youth to...
February 27, 2012
Moderated by Omar Sial, the Deputy General Secretary of the party, the discussion gained a fiery momentum when it came to discussing the controversial role of Arab block and UAE based newspapers. The students also reproved the foreign minister’s response on the resolution and asserted that Pakistan may stand in the same league with Syria in future, and after its recently adapted policies, would be in no position to seek foreign help or of that of the Muslim block.
The Chairperson of the party Ms. Ghinwa Bhutto termed it as government's eagerness to 'please' the foreign powers and a desperate effort to earn favors of United States and other European states with the sole purpose of meeting their political ends.
In the seminar, that invited the students of International Relation department of the University of Karachi, the discussion reached feverish heights as Balochistan issue was broached. The students challenged the purport of the US sympathies with Balochistan and alleged it an effort to destabilize the country. Ghinwa Bhutto also scathingly criticized the interventions saying,
’We are very unhappy with the way United States is dealing with the people of Pakistan, and with the people of our provinces. We do not like other countries to interfere in our internal affairs,’
The following resolution was passed towards the end of the seminar,
(a) Pakistan had indeed acted against its own interest by voting with the US and other European countries on the resolution.
(b) Pakistan will have no ground to stand on if a similar resolution is passed against it.
(c) The affairs of Balochistan were Pakistan's internal affairs and the meeting strongly condemned the vote in the US congress on Balochistan.
