Muzaffarabad:Â Acting AJK President Shah Ghulam Qadir has said that absence of character building in our educational system gave birth to extremism and intolerance in the society. We can makeup this deficiency by inducing the habit of book reading in our children.
This he stated while commenting on the book “Israr-i-Fitrat†authored by prominent writer Ijaz Saleem at Assembly Secretariat on Thursday.
The author of the book presented a copy of his book to the Acting President. He said that the book is unique in terms of its contents that revolving around the philosophy of the code of life and principals to lead a peaceful life harmonious with the nature.
He said that the book is an important source for formation of character in the readers by inducing eternal values like truth, loyalty, respect to elders, devotion to education, trustworthiness. It explains poetry of Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal in the light of Quranic verses. Praising the efforts and contribution of the author of the book, President described the book as priceless treasure of knowledge. He said keeping in view the high standard of the contents he will try his best to include the book in syllabus of the universities and colleges.
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