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Monday 08 Feb 2016 - 11:38 Makkah mean time-29-4-1437
Pakistan Ulema Council's central chairman, Hafiz Mohammed Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi. Image from tribune.pk
Islamabad, (IINA) - Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) will organize “Message of Islam Conference” on Wednesday, with the aim to highlight the religion’s true message of love and peace, Daily Times Pakistan news reported.
Speaking at press conference on Sunday, PUC Chairman Mohammed Ashrafi said main objective of organizing the conference was to counter propaganda and wrong interpretation of Islam by the extremists and terrorists. He said the conference would highlight true and real message and teachings of Islam to the international community and remove any misunderstanding on the issue.
Ashrafi said PUC was organizing the conference in the wake of prevailing situation in the country and Islamic world to help eliminate extremism and sectarianism.
He said that Mufti-e-Azam of Palestine would be chief guest of the event in which more than 5,000 Ulema and Mashaikh and religious scholars from foreign countries like Saudi Arabia, Bosnia, Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Qatar and other countries would be participating.
He said that Muslim countries like Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen were facing the brunt-prolonged war. Innocent people are being killed, yet Muslims are blamed for terrorism, he added. The PUC chairman said the Council had always condemned sectarianism, violence and extremism in all its forms and manifestations.
He said political parties should uphold national interests supreme in major issues and opt for dialogue to ultimately evolve consensus.
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