FAISALABAD:The Paigham-e-Pakistan conference, organised at Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI) on Thursday, stressed collective efforts for eliminating terrorism by promoting religious harmony in the country.
Deputy Commissioner Faisalabad Imran Hamid Sheikh, FCCI President Atif Munir Sheikh, Chairman FCCI Standing Committee on Interfaith Harmony Maulana Zahid Mahmood Qasimi, Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Maluna Riaz Kharl, Maulana Abdus Samad Moiz, Dr Iftikhar Hussain Naqvi, Rana Sikandar Azam Khan, Mian Abdul Waheed, Muhammad Aslam Bahli and other ulema addressed the conference.
The deputy commissioners appreciated the bold and in-time FCCI initiative to organise the conference in order to promote religious harmony in the country. He was impressed by the sincere and dedicated efforts of President FCCI Atif Munir Sheikh to provide immediate relief to the flood affected people of Balochistan.
Atif Munir Sheikh introduced Faisalabad and the FCCI and said that peace was a prerequisite for healthy and productive business activities and it is directly linked with religious harmony.
He said the new runway of Faisalabad International Airport would be completed by November, which would open movement of wide-bodied aircraft of Emirates, Turkish, Saudi and other airlines. He underlined the importance of social media and said that it was being exploited by our enemies to promote sectarianism and terrorism in the name of religion. He said that ulema must play their proactive role to foil such conspiracies meant to disturb our social, religious and national fabric.
Maulana Qasimi said that different sects had prepared a joint communiqué clearly stating that armed struggle against state was unacceptable in Islam. He said that initially 40 scholars had signed the document, but now more than 6,000 religious leaders had endorsed it.
The religious scholars fully supported the armed forces and said that any conspiracy to create rift between people and army would be foiled.
Vice President Rana Fayyaz Ahmad offered a vote of thanks, while President Atif Munir Sheikh presented FCCI shields to Maulana Zahid Mahmood Qasami and other religious scholars.