Student Abdul Qadir reads out a message from the Palestinian ambassador at the KPC on Friday. White Star
KARACHI: Palestinian National Day was celebrated at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Friday afternoon. Retired Maj Gen Sikandar Hayat, who presided over the event, said his first interaction with the Palestinian people happened when he was a student at the Engineering University, Lahore. There were more than a dozen Palestinian students. There he got to know them better.
He asked the audience to think what the problem of Palestine is. “Is it just the problem of occupying a small piece of land?” After the end of the Ottoman Empire, he argued, the entire world was in the hands of the colonisers. They were shaping the world the way they wanted to. They could have done anything. But they kept Palestine separate as per a particular plan. If they could leave the subcontinent and give it to a certain power, then they could do anything [with other regions]. “This is something else