Conference on “The Shi’ahs of Pakistan: The National Position and the Capacity of the ‎Region” held in Qom

Rasa – With the presence of Hujjat al-Islam Rajah Nasir Abbas Jafari, the secretary-general ‎of Pakistan’s Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, 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.‎

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Date: 22 November 2018 - 12:21

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. ‎

Rasa News Agency

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