Rawalpindi: January 29, 2012. (PCP) Mr. Riaz Anjum Advocate, Chairman of Pakistan Christian Movement said that there is no doubt that poverty, illiteracy; unemployment and lack of quality education are challenges for Pakistani Christians but our politicians have failed to address these issues. Mr. Riaz Anjum was speaking at a conference here today said "We have gathered here to discuss challenges faced by Pakistani Christians and solution to secure religious freedom” “I think it is very much necessary to discuss the reasons of these problems due to which Christians are facing these challenges. A nation, country or community makes progress but credit goes to politicians and when nation, country or community fails to achieve the destination or to make progress discredit also goes to politicians. I am of the opinion that we are facing these challenges due to our failure in politics. Our politicians have completely failed to lead Christians towards their destination, helping them to attain economic prosperity and getting quality and higher education. This is the reasons we are far behind than other communities in Pakistan in social, educational and economic fields’ said Mr. Anjum Full contents of speech of Riaz Anjum advocate; Failure of Christian politicians started before the existence of Pakistan. There were many communities in subcontinent and Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Christians. During partition Hindus got India and Muslims succeeded to get Pakistan and to satisfy Sikh community Punjab was divided and east Punjab was given to Sikh community because they refused to live under the domination of Muslims. I do not say that Christians should have struggled for separate state or province; I just say that Christian politicians of that era should have struggled for some districts to live together. If Christian politicians had struggled and taken some districts the social, economic and political situation of Christians would have been completely different today. It is political failure of Christian politicians of that era that they could not visualize the future of Christians. After the existence of Pakistan Christian politicians could not set the destination for their nation. They did not have vision for social, political and economic progress of Christians. The Christian Politicians who came during the period of 1947 to 1990 they did not have any vision or agenda except development work of streets and sewerage. Politicians who came during the period of 1990 till today, they have been doing politics on one point agenda of repeal of Blasphemy laws. Now you people think a nation whose leaders do not have any vision for social, political and economic progress of their people, how such nation can make progress. Dear participants now we discuss challenges which are being faced by Pakistani Christians. There is no doubt that poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and lack of quality education are challenges for Pakistani Christians but these are not big challenges. These challenges are due to the big challenges which are lack of unity and crises of leadership among Christians. It is misfortune of Pakistani Christians that they have been facing crises of leadership since the existence of Pakistan. Dear Friends, a strong, major, organized and visionary political party is the solution of all these problems. Such party should not be an ordinary party. It must work like a state. There should be some institutions or departments under flag of Party. There should be department of international affairs for lobbying for interests of Christians and taking sympathy of international community, there should be department of economic development for economic prosperity of Christians. There must be department of higher education for educational development of our people. There was time when number of people and sources were considered strong element for nations but now time have changed. Now it is war of brains and quality of persons. You can take example of Finland whose total population is less than population of Karachi but exports of one company Nokia of Finland is more than total exports of Pakistan. I mean now quality matters. We should emphasize on quality education. Although we are less in numbers but we can become a strong nation by getting quality education. All such institutions should be under one Flag of political party. Thanks