Interfaith harmony: Yemen issue should not be exploited, says PUC chief
PUC had been promoting inter-religion and inter-sect harmony
Pakistan Ulema Council chairman Tahir Ashrafi. PHOTO: INP
LAHORE:
Some forces want to create a Shia-Sunni rift over the Yemen issue, Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) chairman Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said on Saturday. He was speaking at an Ulema Convention. He said it was an honour for the PUC to welcome Imam-i-Ka’aba Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Ghamdi.
“The Pakistani nation is united for the protection Saudi Arabia. Pakistan could never leave Saudi Arabia alone,” he said. He said no country should impose its vision on another country. Such things, he said, could harm the Islamic world.
Ashrafi said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif’s visit to Saudi Arabia had disappointed those who had been creating misunderstandings between Pakistan and the Arab world.
He said the PUC had been promoting inter-religion and inter-sect harmony. “We will fail conspiracies aim at creating rifts between different religions and sects.” Ashrafi urged clerics to guide people in the right direction.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 26th, 2015.
Some forces want to create a Shia-Sunni rift over the Yemen issue, Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) chairman Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said on Saturday. He was speaking at an Ulema Convention. He said it was an honour for the PUC to welcome Imam-i-Ka’aba Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Ghamdi.
“The Pakistani nation is united for the protection Saudi Arabia. Pakistan could never leave Saudi Arabia alone,” he said. He said no country should impose its vision on another country. Such things, he said, could harm the Islamic world.
Ashrafi said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif’s visit to Saudi Arabia had disappointed those who had been creating misunderstandings between Pakistan and the Arab world.
He said the PUC had been promoting inter-religion and inter-sect harmony. “We will fail conspiracies aim at creating rifts between different religions and sects.” Ashrafi urged clerics to guide people in the right direction.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 26th, 2015.