Staff Reporter
A function was held at the Quaid-e-Azam House Museum (Flagstaff House) on Sunday for honouring Lt. GeneralHumayun Aziz, the former Commander of the 5Corps.
Among the distinguished guests present at the event were the Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and the great grandnephew of Quaid-e-Azam.
CM Murad, the chief guest, recounted the occasion where a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between Government of Sindh, the Jinnah Society, and the Karachi Council on Foreign Rela-tions (KCFR).
The CM said that it was Lt Gen Humayun Aziz who gave him the idea to establish an Institute of Nation Building (INB) at Flagstaff House, and he expressed that he was very glad that this initiative was in the hands of very passionate people.
He said that the Sindh government would readily help INB with any financial, legal, or administrative issues.
He said that there was an urgent need to go back to the vision of Quaid e Azam and take lessons on solving issues faced by our nation.
Lt Gen Humayun Aziz, the guest of hon-our,expressed the regret that his generation had been unable to pass on the lessons and morals taught by their parent’s generation which had created Paki-stan.
He said that over time our nation had lost sense of their identity. The spirit of being a Pakistani, and our history, were obfuscated over time.
He said that there was a need to engage with the younger genera-tion through the medium (s) they feel most engaged with, which include: video, pictures, talks and oral histories instead of just textual information.
The great grandnephew of Quaid e AzamLiaquat Merchant, thanked Humayun Aziz, the chief minis-ter and Vice-Chairman of INB Ikram Sehgal for helping establish the institute.
He underscored the need for continuous support from the Sindh gov-ernment.
