KARACHI, Jan 12: Students of South Asia have formed South Asian Students Organization (SASO) to create and spread peace and harmony, so that over 1.5 billion people of the region can live peacefully.

This was stated by the newly elected SASO chairman, Sardar Ahmad Yusufzai of the Pukhtoon Student Federation, at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club. He said that the SASO was formed at the four-day Commonwealth Legal Education Conference that opened on Dec 28, 2002, at Trivandrum in Kerala, India.

Other officials of the SASO are: Ankur Gupta (vice-chairman from India), Abu Bakar (member from Bangladesh) and Joshi Patel (member from Sri Lanka).

He said the SASO believed in nonviolence, and it had been formed to bring the masses and students of the regional countries nearer to each other so that misunderstandings were cleared and they could live in peace and harmony like good neighbours.