KARACHI: One of the largest educational institution of Pakistan, University of Karachi, has organised conference on topic of ‘Role of tolerance in a multicultural society’ on Friday.
“Intolerance has gripped in the roots of our multicultural society and has caused immense effects on socio-economy and national harmony”, said by Dean Faculty of Art Dr. Moonis Ahmar in inaugural ceremony of one day conference on The Role of tolerance in a Multicultural Society in Karachi University.
According to the official press release, Dr Moonis Ahmar said that every state had cultural conflicts in world but whose states gave respect to opponent’s view, appeared as successful country along with national harmony.
Director of Pakistan Studies, Syed Jaffar Ahmed said that of all the challenges being faced by Pakistan today the menace of intolerance in more dangerous for national integration and the development of country. “The causes behind intolerance are manifold, rooted both in our past socio-political history as well as a number of policy decisions taken at the level of state in contemporary time”, expressed by Syed Jaffar Ahmed in the conference, organized in collaboration with Higher Education of Pakistan and Art faculty of Karachi University.
Dean of VM institute for Education, Dr Barnedtte declared, “We live in an era of unprecedented intolerance”. She strongly condemned that structure of education systems that promoted inequity in educational opportunity for rich, poor, urban and rural.
She also revealed that different curriculum, text books and examinations results reducing opportunity for social mobility, increasing social justice and leading to intolerance, sectarianism and extremism.
Representing from Department of sociology, Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat shared his views to the large number of student that the Sindh province which had so far been a peaceful part of Pakistan for Hindus, Christians, Ahmedis, and other religious minorities, is now slowly falling into the hands of exclusivists.
“Sindh was once the land of Sufis and Saints, but now it seems to be becoming a land of bigotry and intolerance”. He surfaced.
A guest speaker from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Dr. Mohammed Waseem read his paper on meeting the challenges to national harmony in Pakistan. He said that during the last six decades, the ideological framework of Pakistan had moved from a tangible position of de-conflation between religion and politics to an intangible position of conflation between the two.
He boldly expressed, “State must not allow the use of religion for political purposes and thus uphold Jinnah’s ideology of de-conflation between religion and politics”.
While addressing to conference, the eminent journalist Babar Ayaz expressed that the exploitation of religious had created sectarian intolerance and bred violence.
He surfaced that Politcial intolerance and fear of the majority was deeply ingrained in the society which had used religion to achieve political objectives by the ruling classes of this country.
Assistant Professor, Department of IR, Dr Farhan Hanif Saiddiqi expressed that Pakistan’s ethno-political history was littered with non-dominant ethnic groups protesting, often violently, the centralized-authoritarian nature of Pakistan’s political system.
In Charge, visual studies Department of Karachi University, Ms Durriya Qazi shared her views in context of tolerance in Art. She expressed that an art could play vital role in addressing the ever-growing ratio of intolerance in our society.
She said that the state needed to device such policies that would directly affect to grass root level.
By the end of conference, Dr Moonis Ahmer expressed gratitude to the speakers and participants and added with arug to the need of cultivating a tolerance environment for the sake of peace and non-violent state.
Dr Shakeel Auj, Dean Faculty of Islamic Studies said the intolerance in our society was resulted after the dissemination of religious teaching in their own interest. He exampled the Holy Prophet (PBUH) as role model of teaching Islamic ideology
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