KARACHI, Dec 20: Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday demanded that the stranded Pakistanis be repatriated and those responsible for the separation of East Pakistan be punished according to the law.

Speaking at the seminar on the Fall of Dhaka, organised jointly by the National Council for Repatriation of Pakistanis, New York, Amnesty International and the Pakistan Muslim League, Lawyers’ Wing, they demanded that national identity cards and passports be issued to the stranded Pakistanis so that they could go overseas and earn for their families. They also demanded that all those who had been declared responsible for the Dhaka debacle by the Hamood-ur-Rehman Commission be tried and punished according to the law so that nobody could even think of treason again.

They urged Gen Musharraf to become the president of the Rabita-i-Alam-i-Islami Trust, include Bangladesh as a member to make the trust operational so that concrete steps could be taken for the early solution of the problem.

Mahfoozyar Khan, Zulfiqar Ali, Farrukh Rizvi, Anwer Mooraj, Saleem Mehtab, Naeem Ahmad, Liaquat Ali, Miskeen Ahmad, Jaffar-ul-Hassan, Mohammad Usman and others also spoke.