Speakers at seminar have expressed their grave concern over deteriorating situation in Pakistan and stressed the need for a social contract to pull the country out of it. The seminar titled "A New Social Contract is need" organized by Progressive Democratic Alliance (PDA), the alliance of three political parties including Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP), National Party (NP) and Awami Workers Party (AWP), held here at a local hotel on Monday.

The participants said that the country was passing through a critical phase and internal anarchy due to weaknesses of the current government, adding that sectarianism has gone beyond its limits. Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion, social activist Marvi Sarmad, Mukhtiar Bacha, Shakeel Khan, Afzal Khamosh, and Shahab Khattak, said that owing to corruption of the rulers, their nepotism and repeated martial laws, constitution of the country has been distorted.

The participants emphasized that it is a need of the hour to constitute a social contract, wherein complete rooting out of sectarianism, real devolution of provincial autonomy and acceptance of the rights and development of provinces, eradication of corruption and bringing back the plundered wealth back to Pakistan. They continued wherein there is supremacy of law and justice and equal rights to every Pakistani.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2017