Hundreds die daily because of intolerance: Dr Iqbal Afridi.

KARACHI -- To build a peaceful society we have to curb the elements which promote violence and intolerance among general public. The socio-economic injustice within the system, poverty, lack of education, indifference between genders, corruption and unemployment are some major reasons due to which violence and intolerance can be seen in societies. The political and religious extremism are two well-known types of extremism and found in every society of the world regardless their faith, race and colour. Due to extremism activities, 3,329 lost their lives in 2000 while 32,658 people died due to same reasons in 2014. In 2015, 29,376 people were killed of which 577 persons were the victims of terrorism. The highest numbers of casualties were reported from Nigeria, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the same year. These views were expressed by the Head of Pakistan Psychiatric Society, Professor Dr Iqbal Afridi, on Thursday.

He was addressing a seminar, 'Non-violent and tolerant society: transforming youth into heroes of tomorrow', which was organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Karachi in collaboration with local level disengagement and rehabilitation, Project in Swat and Karachi, BEST-PAK and United Nations...