By Uzma Zafar
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi Sunday said that in order to seek a solution to Kashmir dispute, Pakistan would have to undo the Indian evils and portray true image of its own in the comity of nations.
“We will have to undo the evils of India which labeled us for terrorism, opposed us in FATF and NSG. We have to undo that and also portray Pakistan’s true image in the world,” the president said in an interview with a private television channel.
He said that instead of morality, the world’s decisions were tilted towards financial interest, be it was the United Nations or other states. He said morality could become a lead role of Pakistan and any good state as it had become extinct in international relations and among the governments. He said the good leaders could change the destiny of nations quite fast and suggested Prime Minister Imran Khan, leadership from Turkey, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia to take a lead role to revive morality in international relations.
The president said Pakistan was about to emerge as a great nation citing the indicators like unique performance during COVID-19, booming construction industry and exports, balanced current account deficit, improved dollar reserves and remittances well performing stock market and growing IT exports.
Moreover, he said the communication with the traders had increased, ease of doing business ranking was getting better, austerity measures were being taken besides running a strong anti-corruption drive and effectively raising the issue of Islamophobia in the world.
To a question, President Alvi said being an active political worker, he found out his areas of interest to work in while being president like population, information technology, artificial intelligence, women rights, health with prevention of diseases in particular.Similarly, the First Lady Samina Alvi was also running a drive against breast cancer and for women empowerment.
Calling presidency as public trust, the president said he personally bore the expenses incurred on his family and personal guests, be it is at his office or outside. He also clarified that the expenses incurred on the events held at Aiwan-e-Sadr were borne by the ministries or organizations concerned.
Though, he said traditionally, the government financed the president’s camp office, but he met the expenses of his house in Karachi what he had already been doing before becoming the president. Calling for implementation of anti-rape laws, the president said the fear of Allah and societal embarrassment, existence of law and its implementation and development of culture were key to purge the society of the crime.
He said the rape issues were very grave and found everywhere and the parents were also supposed to guide their children about good touch and bad touch.
President Alvi said the law ministry was in process of estimation for setting up special courts for rape cases. The presidency had also held interactive sessions with the NGOs, Ulema and media to urge their role for awareness on the issue.
