The meeting adopted a number of resolutions urging the government of Pakistan to restart the repatriation of stranded Pakistanis who were left behind in Bangladesh after Pakistan lost its eastern wing in the 1971 war with India.
It called upon the government of Pakistan to assign its high commissioner in Dhaka to look after the quarter of a million Pakistanis languishing in squalid camps across Bangladesh. It also urged the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to include in its agenda the issue of stranded Pakistanis.
The PRC meeting exhorted the United States and the United Nations to compel India to hold plebiscite in Indian Kashmir.
The meeting commended the efforts of Majeed Nizami, founder of Nawai Waft Fund for Stranded Pakistanis, who has helped raised millions of rupees to alleviate the plight and suffering of stranded Pakistanis.
The participants of the meeting urged other charitable organizations and Pakistani political parties to work for the repatriation and welfare of stranded Pakistanis.
Speaking on the occasion, Azeez Ahmed, General Secretary of Pakistan Engineers Society said Pakistan came into being due to the strong, honest and dedicated leadership of Jinnah. Unfortunately, it was dismembered in 1971 and our own citizens have been left to live in miserable condition in Bangladeshi camps.
Urdu Markaz President Athar Abbasi said patriotic Pakistanis who sacrificed everything while trying to save Pakistan have been abandoned to live in camps in a hostile country.
Mohamamd Luqman said the problems Pakistan is facing today can be resolved if we adhere to Quaid-e-Azam’s principles of “Unity, Faith and Discipline.”
Gulab Khan praised the commitment of Jinnah to make Pakistan an Islamic welfare state.
PRC convener Ehsanul Haque said creation of Pakistan was a great achievement of Quaid-e-Azam. Hamid Islam Khan, Tariq Mahmood, Shamsuddin Altaf and Riaz Ghumman also spoke. Poets Syed Mohsin Alavi, Abdul Qayyum Waseq, Zamurrad Khan Saifi and Syed Mahtab Ahmed recited poems to pay tribute to Jinnah.
