MANSEHRA: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousuf has said that he would soon meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and lawmakers from Hazara division to evolve a strategy for moving Hazara province resolution in the National Assembly after the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly passed it the other day.

“I will meet the prime minister and local lawmakers next week to discuss with them the strategy to get Hazara province resolution passed from the National Assembly,” he said while speaking to mediapersons here by phone from Islamabad on Sunday.

Mr Yousuf, who is also chairman of Subah Hazara Tehreek, claimed that he had met Chief Minister Pervez Khattak twice and sought his party‘s support for the resolution.

“All political parties played an important role in the passage of the resolution by the KP Assembly,” he said.

Answering a question, the minister said that Mr Sharif would also honour his commitments he had made with people of Hazara about giving it a status of province. He said that he would call a meeting of senators, MPAs and MNAs from Hazara in Islamabad where a committee would be formed for seeking support of all political parties for Hazara resolution in the National Assembly.

Mr Yousuf said that he supported creation of more federating units in the country, but he could not say anything about his party’s policy over the issue.

“If more federating units are created in country, we could deliver in more efficient way,” he claimed.

He said that people of Hazara could not forget those who laid down their lives for the cause of Hazara province in Abbottabad.

SEMINAR: Speakers at a seminar have asked the government to take steps for making Pakistan a progressive and moderate country where nobody could interfere in the matters of others.

The seminar titled ‘The vision of Pakistan resolution and current Pakistan’ was organised by a local NGO here on Sunday and attended by people from different walks of life.

Tehreek-i-Subah Hazara convener Mushtaq Khan said that they wanted Pakistan to be a true moderate Islamic country where rights of everyone were protected without any discrimination.

Mohammad Fiaz, a local leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, said that it was high time that the government should work for ensuring speedy dispensation of justice to people.

He said that successive martial laws had brought bad name to the country.