KARACHI: Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar warned the Pakistan Parliament on Tuesday [Feb 22] that infringement on one fundamental human right led to the violation of the other and finally to fascism. Public opinion could not be curbed by force. [He] was opposing the resolution demanding a ban on communal organisations engaged in political activities. The resolution was moved by Professor Rajkumar Chakravarty (Congress) and was withdrawn after a 75-minute debate.

Professor Chakravarty and Mr B. K. Dutta ... pleaded that Muslim League should give up its communal character. They feared that allowed to continue in its present form it would turn Pakistan into a theocracy. To confuse theocracy with an Islamic State was ignorance of political science, Dr I.H.

Qureshi challenged. Priesthood was the prerequisite for a theocracy and Islam did not recognise any priesthood.

`To ask that Pakistan should not be an Islamic State is asking for the impossible.` If a section of the people wanted a particular set of laws for themselves allowing others to live according to the tenets of their own religion what objection could be raised against such a demand, he added. News agencies