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In a surprising incident, a student of ‘O’ levels, Asma Waheed, declined to receive her excellence award and certificate from Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Dr. Farooq Sattar on account of what she termed helplessness of the government in the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui currently detained in the US.

The incident took place at the oath-taking ceremony of the newly-elected students council members and award distribution ceremony of the OPF Girls College, F-8/2, here on Thursday.

"I want the government to bring back Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, who is the daughter of Pakistan. Her safe return to Pakistan is 100 times more important than receiving an excellence award from the federal minister. I would be a dummy if I don’t vent out my feelings towards her and her sovereignty,” she said on the stage before receiving a round of applause from the audience, comprising students, parents, faculty members and guests."

This is the third incident of this kind where students have refused to receive merit certificates from government officials on account of their political differences.

Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Dr. Farooq Sattar



SAID that he was happy to see the courage of the girl, who has shown her strong emotions and feelings towards Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and termed it their democratic right.

“I am equally worried over this issue and I consider this a democratic right of people to express themselves in whatever way they feel like,” he said. He offered to take the students’ council delegation to the president, prime minister and the US ambassador for talks on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s safe return to Pakistan.

Dr. Farooq Sattar said: “We are going through a bad phase but we have to work really hard to mobilise the country, which can be done by the unity of working class and middle class. We need to shun feudalism, capitalism and tribalism, which have destroyed the fabric of our society. We need to develop our socio-economic stature on war footings and that can be done only by collective leadership, collective wisdom and collective decision through which we can have collective responsibilities.”

He said: “The dreams can only come true if vision and action are brought together. We need to recognise our national heroes on every front so that there is more inspiration for the younger generation. Our IQ level is far better than citizens of most countries. We just need to utilise it at the right time.”

Earlier, OPF Girls College Principal Shahina Masood said that they have started regular classes of BA, BSc and master’s programmes in Education and English Literature from this year. She also informed about the outstanding achievements of students in curricular and co-curricular activities.

The prefects and council members were then given badges and sashes. Presidents and general secretaries of Science, Environmental, Urdu, English, Islamic, Music, Media, Arts, Sports and Health societies were given their sashes as well, making them a responsible representative of the students’ council.

High-achievers of ‘O’ levels, SSC and HSSC examinations were given awards after the oath-taking ceremony. Anam Amin, Ayesha Bilquis, Maheen Zahra, Maria Ahmed, Rida Bukhari, Safia Khalid, Sahar Sajjad and Sara Atif obtained straight ‘As’ in ‘O’ level examinations. In the SSC examinations, Sundus Maria with 93.4%, Noor Aurangzeb Khan with 93.2% and Haleema Khan with 92.4% secured the top three positions in the college. Beenish Imtiaz, Ayesha Rehman and Aleena Shah received awards for achieving 88.5%, 86.7% and 82.9% marks respectively in their HSSC examinations. Later, the principal presented the college crest to the federal minister.

 

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Chal Fiqr Noo Goli Maar Yaar Hain Din Jindri Day Chaar!

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MashAllah.............jzakallah for such a nice an informative shairing....

 

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