Indonesia to replicate edict on suicide bombing

Imam-e-Kaaba and Grand Mufti of Egypt had fully endorsed Paigam-e-Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Indonesia has expressed its willingness to replicate 'Paigam-e-Pakistan' in order to deal with the problem of militancy in its backyard.

Last year, more than 1800 religious scholars representing all schools of thoughts in Pakistan issued a fatwa or religious decree that declared suicide bombings un-Islamic.



Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Dr Qibla Ayaz while addressing the participants of a launching ceremony of magazine Ijtehad announced Indonesia’s willingness followed by symposium on the importance of Paigam-e-Pakistan on Wednesday at the CII office.

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Law Barrister Zafarullah Khan delivered a lecture on the significance of Paigam-e-Pakistan for the Muslim world particularly for Pakistan.

Dr Ayaz informed the participants that the Indonesian president and their ulema highly appreciated Paigam-e-Pakistan narrative in a joint declaration of ulema of Afghanistan-Pakistan-Indonesia on peace and stability in Afghanistan held earlier this month in Jakarta.

Later talking to The Express Tribune, Dr Ayaz said that earlier this year, an Indonesian delegation comprising its national security officials expressed keen interest in this decree and announced that their country will also develop one such Fatwa. They wanted to benefit from the one chalked-out by Pakistan, he said.

“The main objective behind this fatwa is to improve Pakistan’s image across the globe and tell the world that Muslim world strongly condemns terrorism especially suicide bombing and believes in spreading religious harmony,” he added.

Meanwhile, this year Imam-e-Kaaba and the Grand Mufti of Egypt Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam had fully endorsed Paigham-e-Pakistan during their visit to Pakistan.

Dr Ayaz said that Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has given Rs400 million as endowment for nine seerat chairs to be established in various universities. The chairs will be studying different themes of seerat of last Prophet (PBUH) including global peace, women rights, sustainable development and inter-religious discourse.



Earlier, Barrister Zafarullah Khan shed light on the importance of promoting religious and interfaith harmony. He added that there is no place of religious intolerance in Islam.

He said that Paigham-e-Pakistan will tell the world that Islam loves peace and promotes religious and interfaith harmony.