Dr Maleeha calls on JI chief

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s new permanent representative at the United Nations, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, on Sunday called on the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Sirajul Haq and exchanged views with him on the national and international situation.
The meeting was held at the residence of the JI deputy chief Mian Muhammad Aslam in which JI foreign affairs chief Abdul Ghaffar Aziz was also present. At the call-on, the JI chief impressed upon Dr Maleeha Lodhi to raise her voice in the UN against the publication of blasphemous sketches in France that had led to widespread concern and anguish in the Muslim world, and also strive for putting this evil to an end.
He said the world community must be made to realise that the blasphemy of the Holy Prophet (SAW) could not be tolerated at any cost and the UN must quickly move for legislation ensuring respect for all religions, the prophets (AS) of Allah and the revealed books in the interest of the world peace.
Siraj further said that Palestine and Kashmir were the burning issues of the Muslim world as the Palestinians and Kashmiris had been undergoing the worst form of tyranny and oppression for the last six decades and deserved immediate attention of the world body.