Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Sardar Masood Khan, President Azad Jammu and Kashmir, while denouncing the recent statements by French President Emanual Macron, said that by encouraging Islamophobia and allowing blasphemous caricatures of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) is creating further polarization by hurting the sentiments of the Muslim Ummah and attacking the teaching and value system of Islam. He added that the Muslim Ummah should impose economic sanctions against France in the wake of this wicked move.
The President made these remarks while speaking to a seven-member delegation led by Member AJK Legislative Assembly Pir Ali Raza Bukhari, which called on the President here at Jammu and Kashmir House. The delegation also comprised of Chairman International Sufi Scholars Forum (ISSF) Dr. Masood Ahmad Raza Al-Rafai, and Chairman Al Mustafa Welfare Trust-UK Abdul Razzaq Sajid Chairman.
The President along with the delegation strongly condemned Emanual Macron’s hate-mongering. Masood Khan said that the 2 billion strong, Muslim Ummah is in itself an economic power, adding that we must collectively ban all French products, stop trade with France and reject any further economic ties with them. Speaking on the occasion, Chairman ISSF Dr. Masood Ahmad Raza informed the President of the activities of the organisation.
He said that ISSF has worked towards bringing Sufis from around the world and in a coordinated fashion has helped carry out numerous educational and welfare projects. He said that it is our firm belief that Kashmiris have to be liberated from Indian occupation and that Kashmiris be given their right to self-determination. He also informed that the ISSF has actively advocated the Kashmir issue in all their conferences and helped sensitize the general public on the human rights crisis in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Chairman Al Mustafa Welfare Trust-UK Abdul Razaaq Sajid informed the President of various social welfare activities of the Trust in connection to organising free eye-camps and providing health facilities to the indigent segments of the population here in Pakistan and AJK. He said that Al Mustafa Trust has conducted over 100,000 successful eye operations, provided protection to women in its Dar-ul-Kafala and vocational training at its numerous vocational centres around the country.
