KARACHI, Dec 26: To mark the 125th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the University of Karachi organized a seminar and an exhibition of pictures and posters of the Quaid.

A spokesman for the Karachi University said that governor Sindh Mohammedmian Soomro, in a message read on the occasion, paid rich tributes to the Quaid for his dynamic leadership and acumen. He said that by pursuing the guiding principles of the great leader, we could put Pakistan on the path of progress and prosperity.

Vice-chancellor of the Karachi University, Prof Dr Zafar Saeed Saifi, paid rich tributes to Quaid-i-Azam.

He said that Quaid-i-Azam had termed students as the future of Pakistan and as such it was the responsibility of the youth to play their role towards the progress and prosperity of the country.

Speaking on the occasion, a former vice-chancellor of the university Prof Dr Manzooruddin Ahmed, said that Quaid-i-Azam, owing to his inspiring leadership, had gathered the Muslims of the sub-continent on a single platform.

Director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, I.A.Rehman, said that Quaid-i-Azam firmly believed in freedom of speech and supremacy of law. In 1937 he had initiated the struggle for the rights of women through a bill in the parliament through which they got a number of rights.

He said that Quaid-i-Azam had presented the ideas of devolution, deregulation and Decentralization in 1916.

Medhi Masud said that Pakistani nation was lucky that it got a leader of the calibre of Quaid-i-Azam.

A former director of the Quaid-i-Azam Academy Karachi, Prof Shariful Mujahid, said that Quaid-i-Azam firmly believed in the principles of Islam and wanted to introduce an Islamic system of justice and democracy whereby giving equal rights to all the citizens of Pakistan.

Dr Syed Jaffer Ahmed, director of the Pakistan Studies Centre, Prof Dr Riazul Islam and Ehtesham Ansari also spoke.

It was also announced that in the Urdu essay competition Mehwish Ali of the PECHS College secured first position, while Saman Raees of the DMC stood second and Shamim Imtiaz Hussain of the Karachi university’s Urdu department was declared third.

In the English essay competition the DHA Girls College’s Madhia Javed was declared first. She was followed by Mehwish Ejaz, while Qazi F.Azeem of the department of Computer Science Karachi University and the DHA Degree College’s Fatima Siddiq Ali stood third.—APP