Pakistan is facing numerous challenges because of foreign interference

Lahore: : Jamaat e Islami Secretary General, and  Chairman, Human Rights Network, Pakistan, Liaqat Baloch, currently in Turkey, on Friday, called on eminent scholars attending the international Conference organized by the Islamic Human Rights Commission, and discussed with them the sectarian situation facing Pakistan and the entire Muslim world.

The JI leader met Prof. Imam Ahmed Qasim from South Africa, Imam Al Aasi from Washington, and Prof. Mohayyud Din Abdel Qader from Malaysia.

Liaqat Baloch said told the scholars that Pakistan at present was f acing numerous challenges because of foreign interference and internal situation, including the sectarian problems. He said that serious threats had been created both for the Sunnis and the Shia community. He also referred to the problems of economic and social instability, incompetence of the political government and the administration, lawlessness within the country and at the global level.

Liaqat Baloch said that while in Pakistan, the Ulema and religious scholars were trying to minimize the sectarian differences and extremism, the foreign powers were trying to fan these differences to achieve their agenda.

The JI leader said that in general, the Sunnis and the Shia community in Pakistan was living in harmony. He said peace and unity could be achieved by stopping foreign interference. He said in order to end sectarian feeling within Pakistan, it was imperative that all international, political, social organizations and the civil society supported the political and democratic struggle for peace. He stressed that the US and NATO should pull out from the region and the people of Pakistan, Iran and Palestine be allowed to have the system of their choice. Foreign interference in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asian states must be stopped. The right of the people of Pakistan to have their own education system in harmony with their ideology and the constitution be accepted.

He said that Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia should improve their bilateral relations. Besides, all of them should play their role to resolve the problems besetting Palestine, Kashmir, Egypt, Syria and Afghanistan.