PM Kakar underscores importance of striking a balance between social order and rule of law
Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar poses with students from Harvard on Saturday.—External Publicity Wing/X
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has emphasized the importance of continuation of the social order and the maintenance of rule of law, saying that striking a balance between the two is what is needed at the time.
“We are committed and understand that the performance and participatory idea of democracy is what is needed, but at the same time, you have to strike a balance – there’s a rule of law and then there’s a rule of order,” he said, emphasizing that one cannot be compromised for the other.
These comments came during an interactive session with a delegation of students from the Harvard University, US, that is currently visiting Pakistan. The delegation comprises 38 students from nine different nationalities.
The prime minister also underscored the importance of continuation of the social order and the maintenance of rule of law.
He said that the interim government would focus more on rationalizing the expenditures, generation of revenue and development of human resource during its short constitutional period.
The prime minister said Pakistan was gifted with the natural resources and was a country of talented people. He said the government was focusing to produce the high-tech educated and skilled human resource and cited a couplet of Allama Iqbal in which he had hinted the importance of human resource through individual and collective efforts.
“Pakistani diaspora in the US is a success story itself,” he said, adding the Americans knew the Pakistanis who were contributing in their society.
Responding to a question, he said Pakistan had been the biggest victim of climate disaster which was a global issue. The climate change had become an existential threat, he added.
He opined that the world viewed the US as a big power but at the same time, expected it to turn itself into a green power.
Appreciating the progress achieved by the American society, he said the diversification in the US society was an example for other countries to follow, adding their society was tolerant and what the US had produced in the domains of knowledge and skills was amazing.
Replying to a query, the prime minister elaborated the role played by Pakistan during the former USSR and Afghanistan war and the subsequent events in the region. He said Pakistan had contributed hugely towards the global peace and economy. They had faced a lot of challenges in the past as the two powers of the world; the US and Russia, had been in its milieu which had implications, he added.
PM Kakar, explaining a viewpoint, said that priorities by different governments in Pakistan kept on changing, but they did have visions and tried to visualize those visions. He also deliberated upon the history and creation of Pakistan.
The prime minister, to another question, said that democracy gave strength to parliament and mentioned that in Pakistan, in the last fifteen years, three successive democratic governments had completed their tenures. The prime minister said that Pakistan had been positively engaged with the US on different issues, adding there were also conversion and diversion between the both countries on various global issues. – News Agencies / Web Desk
