Religious leaders flay Qassem’s killing

LAHORE:Religious leaders have strongly condemned the US drone strike at Baghdad airport killing chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) General Qassem Soleimani, and deputy head of the Iran-backed Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, along with other junior officials.

Islami Tehrik Pakistan (ITP) leader Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi said that the colonial powers like US had threatened the world peace since Washington neither cared for human rights and sovereignty of independent countries nor respected the international laws and its own laws.

Talking to media on Friday, Allama Sajid Naqvi said the US aggression against Muslim countries had crossed all limits. He praised the role of Gen Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in resisting the western backed terrorism and wiping out a big threat besides countering the conspiracies of other colonial powers. He warned against the US aggression crossing every limit, saying US and its allies invaded and destroyed peaceful countries at their will without justification. He said US aggression and hostilities against the peaceful world created and nurtured the illegal entity like Israel in the Middle East, destroyed two Japanese cities killing millions of civilians by nuclear bombs, turned Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria into rubbles and made their citizens refugees in their own countries.

Head of Wifaqul Madaris Shia Allama Qazi Niaz Hussain Naqvi said the killing of Iranian and Iraqi Generals by patron of ISIS, the US, was the worst terrorism of the new year, and the continuity of tyrannous US history against peaceful small countries.

Talking to media, Allama Niaz Naqvi said Gen Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis were the saviours of Muslim countries since they rid them of ISIS. He said the silence of Arab world over the US attack on Iraq few days back emboldened Washington to kill two heroes of Muslim resistance in Syria.