PM wants to make spiritualism a ‘super science’

Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has announced making rohaniyaat [spiritualism] a “super science”, saying that the doctrine needs research.

“I had been thinking about creating this university for the past 23 years and telling the students about the Ideology of Pakistan,” he said while laying the foundation stone of Al-Qadir University in the Sohawa town of Jhelum district.

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The premier further said the varsity was named after Abdul Qadir Jilani, who linked science and spirituality. “Research on spirituality will be conducted here,” he added.

Here’s what Twitterati had to say about PM Imran’s statement:

He has planned to teach “Spirituality” at a university, but he could not even properly pronounce it in urdu.

Rohoniyat, rohoniyaat, rohaniyaat. Whatever!

Welcome to #NayaPakistan. #AlQadirUniversity

— Farhad Jarral (@FarhadJarralPK) May 5, 2019

Rohaniyaat is a relationship with Allah almighty. It can't be learnt. #rohaniyat

— Democracy (@Tayyabazworld) May 5, 2019

Science and rohaniyat are absolutely different and opposite entities,science believes in what is proved by experiment and observations , where as rohaniyaat has nothing to do with this

— Dr.SAHIB DAD KHAN (@sahibdadkhan) May 5, 2019

Meanwhile, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz also took a jibe at PM Imran.

سیانے کہتے ہیں نقل کے لیے بھی عقل چاہیے-
پرچی کا طعنہ دینے والا نہ اپنا حلف پڑھ سکا تھا نہ لکھی ہوئی پرچی پڑھ سکتا ہے۔ پرچی سے پڑھے تو تماشہ بنتا ہے، پرچی کے بغیر بولے تو اور بھی بڑا تماشہ بنتا ہے، قدرت بھی کس کس طرح بدلے چکاتی ہے !

— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) May 5, 2019

“There is craft in daubing. He who used to criticise [others] for reading off a paper was neither able to read out his own oath nor deliver a speech,” she tweeted.

Maryam further said that he [PM Imran] reading off a paper was a spectacle, and so was he delivering an unprepared speech.