ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (APP): Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said that 13th meeting of the Parliamentary Union of Islamic Countries (PUIC) was opened at a time when Muslim communities across the globe passing through a saga of pain and prosecution.
In his speech at the General Assembly of PUIC in Tehran on Tuesday, the Speaker said that the unrests in Muslim world across the globe is constant reminder for us. He said that in recent years, the Ummah has divided and discarded more than ever before that has not only harmed peace in our respective countries but has also hampered the growth and development of our people.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said that illiteracy is the main reason that our people are discriminated and forced to take a back seat in the global affairs. He said that world has failed to appreciate the Muslims who were instrumental in the defeat of the Al Qaida and Daaish and are being asked to “DO MORE”. He stressed the need for unity among the Muslims countries for peace and prosperity of Muslim Ummah.
The Speaker said that the continued spate of tweets by the US President Donald Trump, attacking religions and coloured nations, equating Islam with terrorism and branding the poor African and Caribbean nations as “Shit Hole States” is not only demeaning but also not befitting to the stature of the President of the United States of America.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq said that ethnic cleansing of the poor Rohingiya Muslims and the continued persecution of innocent men, women and children of Kashmir needed immediate attention. He said that the right of self-determination has been continuously denied to the Kashmiris by India for the last seven decades. He said that the firing by the Indian troops on the Line of Control in Kashmir, which is resulting in loss of precious lives and property on Pakistan’s side of the LoC, are deliberate attempt to divert the global attention from the gross human rights violations in the occupied Valley of Jammu and Kashmir.
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