Women, youth asked to work for peace

CHITRAL, Feb 21:  A training workshops was held on peace dialogue with partner organizations of Rural Community Development Programne (RCDP) at a hotel here. Representatives from several village organizations participated in the two sessions of the workshop. The first session was held under auspices of Citizen Action for Peace and Development (CADP). The participants were trained in social mobilization and emerging needs. During the training, the present era issues and its possible solution were discussed by the participants. Social organizer Abdul Nadir Khan introduced the participants. Programme coordinator of RCDP Engineer Temour Shah briefed the stakeholders about creating integrated organizational talent for solving problems. He said we must play a vital role in redressing different issues in collective efforts. He said that RCDP played its role in this connection with SAP Pakistan partnership to solve local conflicts in an amicable way of dialogue and negotiations. President of women group Shamim Ajaz said women were a very important component of society. She said women should utilize their hidden talent to play their role in the developmental process. She thanked RCDP and SAP Pakistan Programme for enabling women to know their rights. President of youth group of village Faizabad, Kashif Qadir, said youth of his area were fully committed to any type of cooperation for uplifting of the area. He said that timely guideline of youth can be caused for pointing out and solving of several local issue of youth. The second session was held on culture and peace event on engaging local communities’ progressive religious scholars around social cohesion peace and harmony. Abdul Nadir Khan highlighted importance of peace and harmony in the area and termed major component of development. Engineer Temour Shah said that mutual harmony, peace and cooperation can energize development process in a region. He said the youth and senior citizen should play simultaneously role in this connection.  He said that no development is possible without peace. He asked the youth to play their role in peace and development of the area. Waliullah, a member of youth group, thanked RCDP and South Asia Partnership for involving the youth in process of peace and development. Zakia Jameel, the president of women organization, stressed upon the women folk to play their role in development process shoulder by shoulder with men. Deputy coordinator of programme Nasreen Bibi and others also spoke.–Gul Hamaad Farooqi]]>