Pervaiz Elahi distributes certificates at Jamia Ashrafia

LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Ch Pervaiz Elahi has said Wafaqul Madaris are safeguarding the ideology of Pakistan; Islamic ideology is the foundation of Pakistan.

He said this while talking to Secretary General Wafaqul Madaris Al-Arabia Pakistan Qari Muhammad Hanif Jalandhari at the function of Annual Distribution of certificates under auspices of Wafaqul Madaris Al-Arabia Pakistan at Jamia Ashrafia here on Thursday.

Maulana Abdul Razzaq Sikander, Maulana Fazlur Rahim, Maulana Anwarul Haq, Dr Khalid Mahmud, Peer Zulfiqar Naqashbandi, Mufti Muhammad Tayyab, Qazi Abdul Rashid, Dr Fayyaz Ranjha, Maulana Allah Wasaya, Pir Asadullah Farooq, Maulana Irshad Ahmad and other Ulema were present there.

Ch Pervaiz Elahi distributed certificates and shields among the students showing good performance in the examinations. He said that legislation is being done in the Punjab Assembly according to which such foreign books and ideologies be banned which are based on blasphemy of Islam and the Holy Prophet (PBUH). He said in Pakistan such books and literature should also be banned on social media and there should be a complete ban on selling such syllabus, any foreign and local religious book should only be allowed on being published, sold and being uploaded on any mass media, online and social media in Pakistan only after permission and approval of the Ulema Council. On this occasion, Qari Hanif Jalandhari said that Ch Pervaiz Elahi has always played important role in the solution of problems of religious institutions, religious institutions are working not only for Islam but also safeguarding ideology of Pakistan, in the recent of Wafaqul Madaris with the Education Department it has been decided that the religious institutions can issue certificates to their foreign students for issuance of educational visas. He said that if war breaks out with India then 30 lakhs students of the religious institutions will be standing with the Pak Army.