PESHAWAR: Khan Mohammad Ali Khan, West Pakistan Education Minister, said here on Wednesday [Dec 14] that the strength and solidarity which the country had achieved under the present regime could never have been possible in the chaotic conditions prevailing before the regime took over.

He was addressing a meeting of Muslim League, Peshawar, at the Town Hall here on Wednesday. It was unfortunate, he said, that sometime after independence the country fell into the hands of such selfish interests who bothered more for their position rather than for the welfare of the people or the aims and objects for which Pakistan was achieved.

Referring to the students, he said that they were the future leaders of the country and as such were an important asset of the nation. Government, he said, had accepted most of their demands and was prepared to accept other genuine demands which they might put forth. But the destruction which they had wrought on the instigation of the miscreants was highly distressing. He advised them not to play in the hands of these mischief mongers who were out to exploit them for their own purposes.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2018