‘Must learn from fall of Dhaka, APS attack’

PSP chief calls for rulers to provide respect, justice, rights for the oppressed

Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairperson Syed Mustafa Kamal said that Pakistan's rulers and the nation must learn from the tragedies of the fall of Dhaka and the Army Public School (APS) attack in Peshawar, understanding that providing respect, justice, authority and fundamental rights to oppressed nationalities does not break the country, but rather strengthens it.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Kamal termed the fall of Dhaka and the APS attack as dark chapters in the history of Pakistan, which could never be forgotten.

"The enemy [involved in the] fall of Dhaka and the APS tragedy is one," he stated, stating that Pakistan was divided on December 16, 1971, while terrorists bathed innocent children in dust and blood on the same day in 2014 in Peshawar.

"The enemy is well aware of our internal weaknesses," he said. "Not only does it use religious, linguistic and jurisprudential fault-lines in Pakistan, but it also makes use of rising unemployment and social segregation to achieve its nefarious goals."

He insisted that as the entire nation stood by the Pakistan Army in the ongoing war on terror, the country today needs a new social contract that is possible only through a grand national dialogue.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 16^th, 2020.