KARACHI: A one- time student leader, Iqbal Tareen, has observed that the adoption of the Objective Resolution by the constituent assembly in 1949 had buried the vision of the father of the nation, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Mr Tareen expressed these views while speaking at the launching ceremony of his book titled “Harvest will come” here at the Karachi Press Club. Speaker of the Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro was the chief guest at the event.

The book is a collection of selected articles, correspondence and speeches of Mr Tareen, who participated actively in the movement for restoration of individual and collective rights of people of Sindh during the late sixties. He had moved to the United States in 1982 and now lives there.

Pleading for a secular Pakistan, the writer said that only a true democracy, which should not be selective and participatory, could deliver.

He also advocated the need for reforms in the judiciary for fair, free and quick justice as justice could not be selective but based on universal principle.

By and large all speakers, except a few, endorsed the vision of the writer, who said that the issues confronted by the country and the people could only be solved through practical steps and in a scientific manner and put the country to the road of progress and prosperity.

Information Minister Shazia Marri, Amar Jalil, Qazi Fazle Haq, Dr Suleman Shaikh, Dr Abdul Karim Rajpar, Inaam Shaikh, Sassui Palejo and others also spoke on the occasion.--Dawn