Among others, Punjab University Vice Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran, Dr Farid Ahmed Piracha, Iftikhar Feroze and Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas also spoke on the occasion. Makhdoom Javaid Hashmi said we have been asking for the last six months about presence of Black Water in the country and Interior Minister had announced to resign if its presence proved true. Now Robert Gates of the US admitted about presence of Black Water and other institutions in the country, he added.
Javaid Hashmi exhorted upon the students' community to make a pledge that they would uphold the glorious principles in their practical lives set by the Quaid-e-Azam. He said the great Quaid had performed the unique miracle of Pakistan independence by foiling the conspiracies hatched by the Hindus and British merely because of his strong character, determination and political farsightedness.
He said the Quaid delinked himself completely from his daughter when he learnt that she had married an Indian Parsi. "Education is a more potent weapon than even atomic bomb which brings into existence a great leader like Quaid-e-Azam and an unparalleled scientist like Dr A Q Khan," he said.
He said the unprecedented services rendered by Dr A Q Khan and the bold decisions taken by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry were reflective of their education and unblemished character. "If we today equipped ourselves with the same qualities of mind and heart as possessed by the father of the nation, no power on earth could do any harm to us," he said.
He also paid rich tributes to Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran for his meritorious services for transforming the Punjab University into a world level university. Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan Deputy Secretary General Farid Ahmad Paracha, in his speech said that Quaid-e-Azam wanted to make Pakistan a modern Islamic welfare state in which feudalism, capitalism or martial law had no place whatsoever.
He regretted that soon after the demise of father of nation, bureaucracy, feudals, capitalists and despotic forces made the country hostage. During Musharraf's tenure, as many as 42 MNAs, on basis of their fake BA degrees, kept ruling the country for eight long years. He said the present poverty, illiteracy and disease is the direct outcome of the past misrule of these personal stake classes.
"If our political leadership brings back the country plundered wealth amounting to billions of dollars from abroad into the country, the plight of poor toiling masses could be improved radically," he added. Speaking on the occasion PPP leader Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas made an appeal to the Chief Justice to take suo motu notice of the statement of the former Supreme Court Chief Justice Nasim Hasan Shah who said that they were forced to send Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to the gallows.
He said appointment of PCO judges was the greatest crime committed in the country. The Supreme Court should also hold an inquiry to the effect as to why Javaid Hashmi was sent behind bars and who authorised General Musharraf to make amendments in the country's Constitution as per his sweet will.
He asked the political leadership to join hands for beginning a new journey by burying the obsolete and rotten feudal and capitalist system, which has subjected the overwhelming population to abject poverty. He said during the tenure of Shaheed ZA Bhutto and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto 7 and 4 percent of our GDP was allocated for the promotion of literacy and education in the country.
He said, "today we are harvesting the crop of Afghan Jihad sown during the reign of Zia-ul-Haq in the shape of Moon and Boulton markets and Manawan suicide attacks." Punjab University vice-chancellor Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran said that education is the most powerful weapon for any nation in the present-day world and to attain supremacy in the comity of nations, we must equip our younger generation with the knowledge of modern science and technology.
Dr Mujahid said that Quaid-e-Azam is a beacon of light for the country's youth. "It was due to the Quaid's political sagacity, farsightedness and supreme qualities of head and character that we are breathing in an independent homeland today and Pakistan has achieved the singular honour of being the only atomic power of the Islamic world," he added.