There should be unity among Muslim clerics and a true democratic system should be implemented to counter challenges of the new American world order, and foil European countries’ ‘negative propaganda’ against Islamic states, said Federal Religious Affairs Minister Ejazul Haq, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan, Jamaatud Dawa Ameer Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Vice President Begum Tehmina Daultana, Palestinian leader Samama Hamdan, Hamas leader Dr Khalid Mehmood, Punjab Special Education Minister Qudsia Lodhi, Pakistan People’s Party leader Qayyum Nizami, Senator Dr Khalid Ranjha and former Nazim Karachi Naymatullah Khan, at a roundtable press conference on Sunday. The Pakistan Institute of National Affairs (PINA) arranged the conference on the topic ‘Muslim World and American Attitude’. Participants stressed the need to strengthen the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) to develop a mechanism for exchanging technology in science and education. They said that European countries were strengthening their economy and introducing changes to lives of their citizens, because of research in science and technology.
Ejazul Haq said apprehensions among Islamic countries were increasing because of American policies against the Muslim world. He said that America should reconsider its policies to have good relations with Islamic countries, and restore peace in the world. He said the Pakistani government could not survive if it broke relations with the developed democracies, especially America. The minister said that Pakistan could not compete even with its neighbours without improving education, science and technology, health and engineering.