Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Clerics and religious scholars on Friday demanded of the United Nations (UN) and the Islamic Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to take notice of the prevailing atrocities on the people of Aleppo.

The clerics, speaking at a conference to mark ‘Solidarity Day with Oppressed Syrians’, also urged Muslim countries’ leadership to take action through the ‘Islamic Militarily Alliance’ against elements responsible for interfering in the affairs of Muslim countries, particularly of the Arab world.

The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) hosted the conference titled ‘Call for Aleppo’ in Islamabad to express solidarity with oppressed people of Syria. Clerics from different religious schools of thought vowed on the occasion that the people of Pakistan were willing to support the oppressed Syrians.

Addressing the gathering, PUC Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said that silence on part of the world community on the prevailing atrocities against the people of Syria was very alarming and concerning. “Genocide is being perpetrated against the people of Syria,” Tahir Ashrafi said, adding that Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, should play their role to stop the ongoing massacre against Syrian people, especially children and women.

He said that the world leadership was demonstrating a criminal negligence over the killing of innocent children in Syria. He resolved that the Pakistan Ulema Council would continue its struggle against the atrocities by informing the people of Pakistan about the ongoing mayhem in Syria and Iraq.

He also urged the ruling governments of Iran and Russia to have pity on innocent children of Syria, who were being butchered as a result of heavy bombardment. “Conspiracies to plant a dictator and killer in Syria will not prove successful,” said Tahir Ashrafi said, and warned the world leadership that the entire world could turn into hell if the sequel of foreign interference continued in Yemen and Bahrain after Aleppo. Maulana Aqeel, Maulana Abdus Saboor, Maulana Abdul Hameed Sabri, Maulana Tahir Aqeel and Maulana Ashfaq Patafi also addressed the conference.

PUC Secretary General Allama Zahid Mehmood Qasmi, addressing the conference, said that the people of Pakistan were united to support the oppressed Muslims of Aleppo. He said that conspiracies were being hatched to divide the Arab world on sectarian grounds, and that the conspiring elements were making moves to disrupt peace of Haramain Al Sharifain.

He said that the entire Muslim world was united for the defence and security of Haramain Al Sharifain. Meanwhile, clerics addressing Friday sermons in different mosques across the country also expressed their solidarity with the oppressed people of Aleppo.