OIC summit Pakistan’s success, says Ashrafi

ISLAMABAD: PM’s Special Aide on Religious Harmony and Middle East and Pakistan Ulema Council Chairman Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said the successful summit of OIC foreign ministers’ council is demonstration of confidence and trust of the Muslim Ummah.

“We are grateful to the leadership of all the Muslim countries and particularly of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the financial assistance of one billion Saudi Riyals for Afghanistan and further assistance from other Muslim countries will help alleviate the sufferings of the Afghan people,” he said while talking to visiting ulema and mashaikh of different religious schools of thought and ambassadors of different Islamic countries here Tuesday. He said successful summit of OIC foreign ministers’ council on the situation in Afghanistan is a great success of Pakistan and its leadership.

© 2021 Anadolu Agency FILE - ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - JANUARY 07: Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan's special representative on religious harmony Maulana Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi speaks during an interview in Islamabad, Pakistan on January 07, 2021. (Photo by Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)“We felicitate Prime Minister Imran Khan, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, the armed forces of Pakistan and the country’s security institutions on the successful summit of extraordinary session of OIC foreign ministers’ council on Afghanistan.

He said Pakistan Ulema Council and all the political and religious organisations of the country are grateful to the Muslim world for their cooperation for the cause of Afghanistan. Amidst the prevailing situation in Afghanistan, he said the Islamic world and the world leadership should come forward to help the Afghan people and talk to the Afghan interim government if any country has concerns and reservations to resolve their respective concerns through dialogue with the Afghan leadership. He said Prime Minister Imran Khan’s speech at the OIC foreign ministers’ conference was not only representation of Pakistan but also of the Muslim Ummah.