ISLAMABAD: All the religious schools of thought were committed to ensure implementation on 'Code of Conduct' to ensure religious harmony during the Muharram-ul-Haram, said leading scholars and clerics of different religious organizations on Sunday.
Addressing a press conference, chairman Pakistan Ulema Council Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi and others said that in accordance with 'Paigham-e-Pakistan Draft' a code of conduct has been devised with consent of leading scholars of different sects to ensure harmony during Muharram-ul-Haram.
The clerics said religious scholars and leadership of all religious organizations and sects have announced unanimously to dissociate from extremist and terrorists elements. A coordination committee comprising Allama Hussein Akbar, Maulana Ziaullah Shah Bukhari, Maulana Ziaul Haq Naqshbandi, Maulana Abdul Wahab Ropri, Allama Abdul Haq Mujahid, Maulana Muhammad Afzal Haidri and Maulana Aseedur Rehman Saeed has been formed in the aegis of Muthahida Ulema Board Punjab to ensure harmony in the country during Ashura.
Any Islamic sect should not be declare 'infidel' and any Muslim or non-Muslim should not be declare 'worthy of killing' and people of Pakistan and believers of all religious sects will live their lives as per rights of Constitution of Pakistan.
There should be complete ban on publication of violent and hateful religious content, hate-speeches, outrageous literature books based on hateful content, CDs, websites carrying seditious content must be checked. Similarly there should be complete ban on outrageous religious slogans and no sacrilegious remarks will be made about Imams, Mujtahids and Islamic Jurisprudents.
Joint religious congregations will be held to demonstrate solidarity within all religious sects. Government of Pakistan should ensure implementation on 'National Action Plan' without any distinction. 'Paigham-e-Pakistan' was an unanimously approved draft and to ensure legislation on this draft, consultation process should be initiated on priority.
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