PM Imran seeks Ulema’s role to root out menace of corruption

Prime Minister Imran Khan has sought religious scholars' help to end menace of corruption from the society, saying joint efforts of all stakeholders are |indispensable to tackle this challenge".

“The nation is destroyed when it stops distinguishing between good and evil,” he said while addressing an Ulema and Mashaikh conference in Islamabad on Monday.

Referring to opposition parties, the premier said that "those who are facing corruption charges of billions of rupees are pressurising" his government to give them NRO.

PM Imran said opposition leaders who own billions of rupees worth assets cannot explain their sources of income.

He added that the country can only prosper in the presence of rule of law and improved justice system.

He asked the Ulema to create awareness about the principles state of Madina in the society so that people change their perception about corrupt practices.

Speaking about Islamophobia, the prime minister said that the silence of Muslim leaders over the issue has led to increase in hatred against the Muslim community across the world.

“Unfortunately, we [Muslim world] have failed to convey to the Western world that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism,” he added.

He said before 9/11 most the suicide attacks in the world were carried out by Tamils in Sri Lanka. “But no one called it Hindu terrorism,” the premier said while urging the Muslim leaders to speak at all forums against Islamophobia to dispel negative perception about Islam.

PM Imran said Muslims who are living in Western world and India have to go through a lot of difficulties due to prevalence of anti-Muslim sentiment in their societies due to Islamophobia.

To counter this challenge, he said Muslim nations need to take steps similar to the one taken by the Jewish community.

“Anyone who criticises the Jewish community or even Israel in the West is labelled as anti-Semitic and no one cares about freedom of speech,” he added.