RNA – A conference entitled “The Shi’ahs of Pakistan: The National Position and the Capacity of the Region,” was held at the office of Rasa News Agency in Qom with the presence of Hujjat al-Islam Rajah Nasir Abbas Jafari, the secretary-general of Pakistan’s Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen.
At the conference, Hujjat al-Islam Jafari first explained the activities of the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen in Pakistan and then examined the situation of the Shi’ahs after the election of Prime Minister Imran Khan on August 17th, 2018.
He noted that this election defeated the two main rival political parties, including the Pakistan Muslim League of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the Takfiri armies allied with Saudi Arabia and said, “Saudi Arabia had invested a lot of money in Pakistan over the past forty years and Pakistan is a strategic interest for them. Saudi Arabia wants to defeat the Shi’ah parties and is angered by their success and the weakening of the pro-Saudi parties, but despite all of this, the Shi’ah and the moderate Sunni parties were successful in the recent elections. This election was a huge defeat for the Saudi Arabia. They were hoping that the Shi’ah people and parties would be removed from the political arena.”
The conference also examined the relations between the Shi’ahs of Pakistan and other denominations in this country and the interventions and influence of foreign countries in Pakistan and the effects on the large Shi’ah minority of this country.
Hujjat al-Islam Jafari also examined the future of Pakistan’s relations with Iran, as well as the contrast between this issue and Saudi interference.
In another part of his speech, His Eminence stressed that the number of Pakistani pilgrims participating in the Arba’in al-Husayn pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala is increasing every year and also the number of pilgrims visiting Mashhad and Qom are increasing every day and examined this issue and stressed upon the facilitation of the pilgrims.
“Pilgrims traveling to Iran over land remain in grave danger. The Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen protects them, provide proper means and resources on route and we are also happy to provide adequate food and shelter at the Taftan-Mirjaveh border crossing,” he said.
He noted that the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen is a political and cultural organization in Pakistan that is represented in the various provinces and autonomous territories of Pakistan and some neighbouring countries such as Iran, Iraq and Lebanon.
Hujjat al-Islam Jafari explained that the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen in active in various fields and has founded about 100 mosques and established of tens of Quranic centres, organized missionaries in different parts of the country, strengthened religious missionary centres, provided drinking water in deprived areas, provided the construction of houses for flood victims and distributed food packages and medicines for those in need and for orphans.
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