Another group of Pakistani clerics declined to participate in the moot unless the Afghan clerics’ council clarifies anti-Taliban remarks by one of its members in 48 hours. PHOTO: FILE
The fresh move diminishes hopes further regarding the conference, which was twice delayed in the past three months due to controversies.
According to the head of the Majlis Sutul Islam (Voice of Islam), Mufti Abu Hurraira Muhiuddin – a member of the Pakistani religious scholars’ committee which met Afghan clerics in Islamabad last week as part of preparations for the ulema conference – the remarks by members of the Afghan clerics’ council had put the fate of the meeting in doubt.
“Afghan scholars’ remarks against the Afghan Taliban have created a deadlock… we have written to the chief of the Afghan Ulema Council Maulvi Qayyamuddin Kashaf to clarify the statements in 48 hours,” he maintained.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 18th, 2013.
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For peace in Afghanistan to prevail, you cannot label one side bad and one side good, otherwise there will be continuing violence. All sides have to be stakeholders in this....
This will put at rest all charitable doubts about which force is fanning extremism. It is Pakistan that seems to be home to all color of Taliban sympathizers, not the Afghans who are the victims but now wise enough to know who real enemies are.