Issuance of decrees against Pakistan: PUC asks Kabul to take action against Afghan ulema

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi Monday said that Afghan president, instead of hurling allegations against Pakistani Ulema and religious scholars of Pakistan, should take action against state clerics of Afghanistan who used to issue Jihad decrees against Pakistan. Talking to visiting delegates of different religious sects here, Tahir Ashrafi said that Ulema and Mashaikh of Pakistan had not only served people of Pakistan but also the entire Muslim world in accordance with the teachings of Quran-o-Sunnah.

He said the Afghan president should take responsibility for taking action in Afghanistan against extremist religious scholars instead of hurling accusations against clerics and Mashaikh of Pakistan. “Islamic code of life is not limited for any specific state or nation but served the entire Muslim Ummah,” he added.

Ashrafi also asserted that he would expose the elements responsible for making mess on pretext of "Finality of Prophethood Law" in 28th January Conference that will be held under the aegis of Pakistan Ulema Council on Mall Road in Lahore. He underlined that religious organisations, clerics and Mashaikh of Pakistan were playing key and vital role by issuing decrees to condemn extremism and terrorism and its first time that struggle of Ulema and Mashaikh had been acknowledged at state level in Pakistan and 'state narrative against terrorism and extremism' should be implemented in the country with additional reforms. He said PUC had always remained on forefront to annihilate menace of terrorism and extremism from Pakistan since 2000.

Tahir Ashrafi also asserted that national narrative against terrorism and extremism that

has been issued with the title of, "Paigham-e-Pakistan" should be transformed into proper legislation with additional reforms to be more effective in its influence. “The seminaries and religious organisations, which have endorsed Paigham-e-Pakistan, the government of Pakistan should also bring change in its conduct for all these organisations,” he said. He said the names of innocent and guiltless Ulema and Mashaikh should be delisted from 'Fourth Schedule'. Ban on seminaries' registration should be lifted.

He said religious scholars and clerics of Pakistan had always issued decrees in accordance with the situation in Pakistan. He said Afghan president should take decree from Afghan clerics in accordance with the prevailing scenario in Afghanistan.