LARKANA, Feb 14: Participants of a seminar have urged the government to take urgent steps to provide jobs to the unemployed besides devising strategy to end economic exploitation to contain the rising trend of suicides in Sindh.

The one-day seminar on ‘Causes of Suicides and Social Behaviour’ was held here under the auspices of the Sindhi Adabi Sangat.

Speaking on the occasion, the president of the Liberal Forum (Pakistan), Amanullah Shaikh, said that the Sindhi society had been hit by stagnation and steeped in suicidal tendencies, which was reflected in its literature.

He said that if the society faced the situation with daring and determination, only then it could save itself from being totally gripped by the increasing suicidal tendencies.

Stressing on the need to end economic exploitation, the chief guest, Sahib Khan Channa, said that it was the major factor pushing Sindhis to commit suicides, adding that religions, including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, abhorred suicides.

Other speakers, including Muhktiar Samo, Ada Qazi, Rauf Abbasi, Jabbar Kehar, Aslam Bhutto, Sikandar Abbasi, Dr Zulfikar Rahoojo and Dr Zulfikar Siyal, dilated upon multiple factors leading the people of Sindh to commit suicides, including fear, greed, social pressures, economic disparity, ignorance, indifferent attitudes coupled with poor ability of the individual to withstand these negative tendencies.

According to them, the soaring graph of unemployment in Sindh was the one of the key factors for the rising trend of suicides in the province. They urged the government to take effective measures to redress the situation in this regard.