LAHORE: Clerics and religious scholars associated with Wafaqul Masajid Pakistan, addressing Friday congregations across the country, resolved that people in Pakistan were united and committed to countering any conspiracy made against the stability and solidarity of Pakistan. They said that any foreign aggression against Pakistan or Saudi Arabia would be retaliated. They said that statements made by the Iranian army chief had aggrieved the people of Pakistan; however any adventurism on account of Iran and Afghanistan against Pakistan would be dealt with an iron hand. Iran and Afghanistan are brotherly Islamic countries but they should not get used by the Indian establishment, they said. They said that Pakistani soil had never been utilised against any Islamic country in the past and would not be employed against any neighbouring Muslim country in the future; however, no one would be allowed to play havoc with peace, security and sanctity of Saudi Arabia. A ‘protest day’ was observed on Friday to condemn aggressive stance of Iranian and Afghan leadership towards Pakistan. Scholars and clerics associated with the Pakistan Ulema Council and Wafaqul Masajid Pakistan in Friday congregations denounced the Afghan and Iranian leadership’s stance against Pakistan. PUC Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi addressed a protest demonstration in Lahore, in which he said that Pakistan had always promoted peaceful policies with its neighbouring Islamic countries. Pakistan had never allowed anyone to utilise its soil against any Muslim country. “Pakistan has become part of an ‘Islamic military alliance’ to annihilate the menace of terrorism and extremism from the Muslim world,” said Tahir Ashrafi, adding that the way Iranian leadership owned autonomy to establish its relations with India and Afghanistan, Pakistan also owned autonomy to constitute its internal and external policies and bilateral relations with regional countries.