Zaireen, Tableeghi Jamaat members should not be vilified: Mustafa Kamal

Pak Sarzameen Party Chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal on Thursday said Pakistani pilgrims who came back from Iran and members of the Tableeghi Jamaat suffering from coronavirus should be seen as patients rather than being portrayed as culprits.

He accused the government of ill-treating them and demanded that they should be treated well.

He censured the ones who were attaching social stigma to pilgrims and Tableeghi Jamaat members in the backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak.

“No religious communities and sects are responsible for the spread of the coronavirus. It is in fact a pandemic. Linking it to certain groups is unjust and tantamount to creating divisions among the people of the nation,” he said.

“The PSP strongly condemns incidents of harassment and torture of persons belonging to Tablighi Jamaat members,” he added.

He expressed these views in a video statement issued from the Pakistan House, the party headquarters.

He also criticised for harshly treating citizens. “There is no time for sectarianism, we as a nation should support each other in these testing hours. It is time we please God and not to earn His wrath,” he said.