SAIDU SHARIF: The Scientific Adviser to the President, Dr Abdus Salam, today [Aug 26] re-emphasised the need for bigger allocation for scientific research. Summing up the deliberations of the Pakistan Science Council earlier addressed by President Ayub, he said Rs. 40 crores should be set apart for the purpose as against the present allocation of Rs. 15 crores.

Dr Salam said that the country required research institutes for subjects like metallurgy, fuels and minerals, waterlogging and salinity, flood control, fisheries and marine biology. Dr Salam paid tributes to President Ayub for his keen interest in the development of science and technology.

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies from Karachi,] unless imperialism was rooted out from Afro-Asian soil in all its manifestations, suffering humanity cannot be assured of days of peace and prosperity. This was the consensus of opinion at a symposium on “imperialism and independence” held at Khalikdina Hall. Mr Sultan Ahmed, President of the Karachi Union of Journalists, was in the chair.

The imperialist and colonial Powers exploiting the backward peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America for their own ends, came under heavy fire. Speakers forcefully denounced the brutalities and atrocities being perpetrated on various parts of the world by the so-called “Guardians of freedom”.

Mr Sultan Ahmed, winding up the symposium declared that the responsibility for throwing off the yoke of imperialism mainly rested on the younger generation. He reminded the youth of the country that it was their duty to alert the people against the inherent dangers of imperialism. Mr Moinuddin, Joint Secretary, Pakistan National Awami Party, who spoke in Bengali, vigorously slated the exploitation of humanity carried out by imperialist Powers. He pleaded for practical steps to efface the colonialists from the surface of the earth.

Published in Dawn, August 27th, 2015

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