The proposed commission could promote the Kingdom’s food security, and enhance the quality and magnitude of bilateral trade, employment, investment in industrial joint ventures, power, construction, water projects, tourism, and cultural and religious sectors, PRC said in a resolution adopted at its Saudi National Day celebration on Wednesday.
The meeting also resolved to urge Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to reactivate the Rabita Trust, which was frozen during former President Pervez Musharraf’s regime in October 2001, and restart the process of repatriation and rehabilitation of the Pakistanis stranded in Bangladesh for several years. “To overcome the paucity of fund, we suggest implementation of our proposal to settle the stranded Pakistanis on self-finance basis,” the resolution said, adding that Bangladesh be included in the trust to play its role in solving the issue.
By another resolution, the meeting condemned the “high handedness” of Indian forces toward Kashmiri civilians, which has resulted in the death of about 100 people. “President Zardari should use the UN, the United States and other countries to pressurize India to ensure a plebiscite in Kashmir according to the will of its people under the UN resolution.
“Kashmiris must be included in all the negotiations between India and Pakistan, and the Indian Army should withdraw its forces from Kashmir,” the resolution added.
PRC President Mohammad Luqman presided over the meeting, with Saudi poet Omar Salem Mehdar Al-Eidros as the chief guest. Al-Eidros presented a poem in praise of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s achievements in the past five years.
PRC Convener Ehsanul Haque, Maqboolur Rahman Abbasi of Pakistan Journalists Forum, Iftikhar Choudhry of Society of Pak Friends, Aziz Ahmed, general secretary of Pakistan Engineers Society, Hamid Islam Khan and Syed Shehabuddin were among the speakers. Poets Naseem Sehar, Abdul Qayyum Waseq, Zamurrad Khan Saifi, Gule Anwar and Munir Khawar presented poems on the Saudi National Day and Saudi-Pakistan friendship.
Syed Musarrat Khalil conducted the meeting.
