RAWALPINDI: President Mohammad Ayub Khan has asked the younger generation to engage itself wholeheartedly in the war of reason against exaggerated emotion, false sentiments, empty slogans and hollow legends.

In a message for the first annual magazine of the Pakistan Inter-Wing Students Association, the President said: “We have to build our country on a solid basis through realism and pragmatism.” This required disciplined, hard work and dedication, he added. The President said it was the duty of everyone in Pakistan to regulate his life according to the fundaments concepts of Islam and to learn to apply these concepts in his daily life. He expressed his belief that whatever linguistic and other variations in different regions of Pakistan, the culture of Pakistan derived sustenance and strength from one single source — Islam.

President Ayub said: “our culture is based on the fundamental Islamic concepts of one God, equality of man and social justice. All our serious thinkers, philosophers and poets, whether they wrote in Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi or Pashto, were inspired by these concepts, and it is this which makes us one people, one country and one culture.”

Published in Dawn, October 4th , 2018