Lahore Friday Prayer Leader:‎

Suicide bomb attack on IRGC near Zahedan ‘very grievous’ ‎

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Jawad ‎Naqvi said, “There are many movements in the region ‎where Iran and Pakistan meet and large ‎[terrorist] ‎networks supported by Arab countries ‎are ‎present there who often carry out such operations.”‎

News ID: 443536

Date: 17 February 2019 - 11:22

RNA – In his Friday prayer sermon delivered to a large and fervent crowd of believers in ‎‎the‎ ‎Pakistani city of Lahore, Hujjat al-Islam Sayyed Jawad ‎Naqvi, the principal of Jami’at Urwat ‎al-Wuthqa Islamic ‎Seminary, said, “A bitter incident took place near the [Iranian] city of ‎Zahedan. The IRGC came under suicide bomb attack and many people were martyred. ‎Zahedan is a border area in the province of Sistan and Balouchestan, where Iran and ‎Pakistan meet, and there are many movements in that region and large ‎[terrorist] ‎networks ‎supported by Arab countries are present there who often carry out such operations.”‎

The Pakistani scholar added, “They perpetrated this operation and in this regard, the ‎Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution [Ayatollah Khamenei] issued a statement. There ‎are various news agencies reporting that approximately forty IRGC personnel have been ‎martyred. This was a very grievous incident.”‎

In other remarks, he said, “Another concern is Afghanistan. Afghanistan has become ‎pregnant for a new birth. Just as in the way an animal becomes pregnant and gives birth to ‎child, the same way events, incidents are born and they are born from the same womb ‎which nurtures the sperm of sedition.’‎

Hujjat al-Islam Naqvi stated, “The Commander of the Faithful [Imam Ali] has mentioned ‎the birth of sedition, its growth, nurturing and fighting against it. We have discussed this ‎sermon in one series of lectures. I have mentioned about this how sedition is born, spread ‎and how they destroy things. Some lands are barren but some are not, instead they are ‎prepared for the birth and nurturing that egg. Afghanistan is such a land which is ready for ‎these incidents.”‎

His Eminence continued, “For these incidents which take place outside Afghanistan, they are ‎prepared. Pakistan is also ‎prepared for sedition. There are countries in our neighbourhood ‎such as China, which isn’t ready to accept ‎sedition. The biggest obstacle to sedition in China ‎is the culture – the civilization there doesn’t accept external sedition. They are barren in ‎regards to sedition.”‎

He stressed, “In Pakistan, the culture is highly fertile to give birth to sedition in abundance. ‎For the past forty years, Afghanistan has been under the dominance of sedition and‎ not a ‎single day has passed in which there has been no destruction there. The same is true in ‎regard to its neighbour, ‎Pakistan. The Afghan people have spread out and now there are ‎about 2.5 million Afghans in Pakistan and they have also emigrated to various other ‎countries.”‎

Hujjat al-Islam Naqvi ‎said, “Those present in Afghanistan are also the victims of these ‎same issues. ‎Another act of ‎sedition is about to be created and it’s currently being prepared ‎there. The United States is leaving Afghanistan ‎abruptly and ‎has announced that they are ‎withdrawing their forces. When they pull out their forces, they ‎know what they have to do ‎and what is going to happen there and therefore, they are securely withdrawing their ‎forces ‎so‎ that they don’t suffer in the events which are going to happen afterwards.”‎

He stated, “The Taliban are again being ‎prepared for ‎another stage now. They have been ‎specifically nurtured for this. First they were created in ‎Afghanistan, then the same ‎movement was divided into two. One branch is in Afghanistan and the second branch is in ‎Pakistan. Then, they ‎were‎ divided further but at their core, they are all the same. They are a ‎group that can do anything and ‎prepared to do‎ anything for anyone. If they want to create ‎insecurity in Pakistan or in Afghanistan they will carry it out immediately. The entire world ‎knows that this group can be of use to anyone and they ‎have used in this manner.”‎

In conclusion, he said, “Now they are being prepared for new phase. The Americans are ‎withdrawing from Afghanistan ‎and our Minister of Foreign Affairs [Shah Mahmoud Qurayshi] ‎has also announced, and he has stated with insight that this dramatic move ‎by the United ‎States‎ isn’t good.‎” ‎

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