25/12/2022
Department of English Al kauthar Islamic University Islamabad held a conference titled "Quaid aur Iqbal ka Pakistan (Prospects, Responsibilities, and Opportunities"
Dr Khalid Rahman, Chairman Institute of Policy Studies was the chief guest, Prof Dr Munawar Hussain Department of Political Science from Quaid-e-Azam University as a special speaker and Dr Muntazar Mehdi Associate Professor NUML Islamabad graced the conference with his welcome notes.
Moreover, Mr Hamid Naveed and Mr Atta ullah Lahijan Lecturers from NUML, Mr Abid Ali Lecturer International Islamic University and Al Kauther Islamic University, Mr Muhammad Ilyas Lecturer Federal Urdu University Islamabad and Al Kauthar Islamic University, and Mr Abdul Rehman Mir Lecturer University of Baltistan Skardu were the prominent part of this conference. Students from Department of English Al Kauther Islamic University and Al Kauthar Islamic University attended and the conference.
Furthermore, the conference began with recitation of the Holy Quran and National Anthem. Dr Muntazar Mehdi welcomed and thanked the guest speakers and the participants and expressed his devotion and homage to the great leaders of the nations. He said the theme of this conference "Prospects, Responsibilities and Opportunities" are the self explanatory words which motivate us towards unity faith and discipline. He added that we have to explore the prospects as Allah says We bestow upon the man what he longs for. Pakistan is rich enough with thousands of prospects for us in all aspects of life. After the prospects there comes responsibilities that we should determine our responsibilities to avail opportunities. He further said that it is beyond our control to make every individual good. Instead we can inspire and impress others to act like us.
Afterwords, Students from Department of English Al kauthar Islamic University presented "Shikwa and Jawab e Shikwa" of Allama Iqbal's poetry. Some of them made their speech on unity, faith, Islam and Politics with reference to the poetry and thoughts of Allama Iqbal and Quid e Azam.
Furthermore, Dr Munawar Hussain highlighted the core issues faced by the country in terms of national integrity and solidarity. He highlighted the roles of the Muslim scientists and intellectuals in shaping the world. He said that the Muslim nations set off towards declination when they restricted religious institutions. He further said that the christian and the jewish religious institutions established a number of world class universities which are still being run by their organized think tanks. Dr Munawar said that unfortunately our thinking is less organized, our perceptions and practices are less organized. In order to achieve success and prosperity we should atleast organize our society, institutions, and the nation as a whole. Disorganized nations fall towards declination and face tremendous crises in every field. He said that Pakistan has diversity in every field which can make a bright and prosperous society. He said the Britishers left three isms here; liberalism, secularism and nationalism. Since then our youth across the country have been in this debate of nationalism that the split nationalist thought such as Balochi, Sindhi, Pathan, Panjabi, and Kashmiri and now the nationalist thought in GB is on the verge. He concluded that we all should collectively think for Pakistan that it becomes a uniformed strength to make progress in the array of other developed countries. He said that Qaid and Iqbal's ideology truly called us towards unity and fraternity.
At the end, the participants asked multiple queries to the guest speakers regarding the current political scenario, freedom movement before 1947 and the foreign policy of the country.
