LAHORE: (Saturday, December 15, 2012): Punjab University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that knowledge and warfare are real spirit of Islam but we could not become knowledgeable and powerful without the strength of character. He was addressing the book launching ceremony of “Akhri Salam: East Pakistan Key Maidan-e-Jang Say” written by Major (r) Aftab Ahmed at Al Raazi Hall of Undergraduate Study Centre.

Addressing the ceremony, Dr Kamran said that the question was why the people of Balochistan were deprived of their right? He said that now the PU had started efforts to resolve and highlight the problems of Balochistan and according to an announcement made by the administration in a seminar organized by PU Academic Staff Association, 97 Baloch students had been admitted to PU with free education and free boarding facilities and with a scholarship of Rs 3,000 a month to each Baloch student to bear the expenses of hostel mess. He said that an Australian Jewish scientist Gideon Polya had written in his book “Body Count” that there had been 1.3 billion avoidable deaths during the period 1950-2005 of which 600 million were Muslims. He said that the figure would reach 700 million if we included deaths of Muslims occurred in the last seven years. He congratulated Maj (r) Aftab for writing the book which had brought out our strengths and weaknesses.