Seminar: Baloch youth share their grievances
Participants lament lack of educational opportunities in province.
The Baloch youth representatives lamented that their issues and problems were being persistently ignored and the media routinely overlooks them. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
A genuine democracy and good governance will help minimise the sense of deprivation among the Baloch and lay the foundations of sustainable peace in the province.
These views were expressed by members of the Balochistan Youth Forum (BYF) in a seminar titled ‘Elections, Democratic Rights and Governance - in Youth Perspective’ held by Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) at Defence and Quaid-e-Azam University’s Strategic Studies (DSS) Department on Monday.
Speakers said the people of Balochistan were being denied their basic rights, such freedom of speech, and thus democracy was a farce for them. The Baloch youth representatives lamented that their issues and problems were being persistently ignored and the media routinely overlooks them.
They further underpinned the need for a genuine democracy to redress issues being confronted by the Baloch.
Sardar Wazir Ahmad Jogezai, former deputy speaker of National Assembly, said genuine democracy has never been allowed to flourish in Balochistan and the present quagmire there is a result of the non-democratic mindset of our rulers.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2013.
A genuine democracy and good governance will help minimise the sense of deprivation among the Baloch and lay the foundations of sustainable peace in the province.
These views were expressed by members of the Balochistan Youth Forum (BYF) in a seminar titled ‘Elections, Democratic Rights and Governance - in Youth Perspective’ held by Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) at Defence and Quaid-e-Azam University’s Strategic Studies (DSS) Department on Monday.
Speakers said the people of Balochistan were being denied their basic rights, such freedom of speech, and thus democracy was a farce for them. The Baloch youth representatives lamented that their issues and problems were being persistently ignored and the media routinely overlooks them.
They further underpinned the need for a genuine democracy to redress issues being confronted by the Baloch.
Sardar Wazir Ahmad Jogezai, former deputy speaker of National Assembly, said genuine democracy has never been allowed to flourish in Balochistan and the present quagmire there is a result of the non-democratic mindset of our rulers.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 18th, 2013.