Army chief stresses need for promoting greater interfaith harmony in society

 Monday, September 25, 2023

COAS commends Christian people group's commitment to guard, instruction.
Appointment applauded armed force's endeavors against illegal intimidation, safeguarding minorities.
"Islam is a religion of harmony and there is no space for prejudice."

RAWALPINDI: Head of Armed force Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir in a gathering with individuals from the Christian people group at the General Central command (GHQ) Rawalpindi focused on the meaning of advancing interfaith congruity in the general public, the Between Administrations Advertising (ISPR) said on Monday.

A 14-part Christian people group designation, drove by Dr Azad Marshall — Mediator and President Priests (Church of Pakistan and Cleric of Raiwind) — approached General Munir, the military's media wing said.

During the gathering matters of common interest, strict and between confidence amicability were talked about as the COAS praised the commitments of the Christian people group in public turn of events, including the advancement of value schooling, medical care and altruistic administrations and the exceptional pretended by them for the protection of the country.

Gen Munir communicated profound regard for the Christian people group and focused on the need to advance more noteworthy interfaith congruity in the general public to follow Quaid's actual vision of a unified and moderate Pakistan, the ISPR added.

"Islam is a religion of harmony and there is no space for prejudice and fanaticism in Islam and society. Nobody can be permitted to go rogue in a humanized society," the military boss said.

In the mean time, the Christian people group individuals recognized the Pakistan Armed force's endeavors in combatting psychological warfare and giving a solid climate to the minorities in the country.

The designation praised the military boss' signal as a motivation for the Pakistani minorities to take a more noteworthy and more dynamic part in country building and in reestablishing their confidence in a strong and open minded society.

'No space for prejudice': COAS on Jaranwala occurrence

The gathering comes in the scenery of the "Jaranwala episode" where a crowd vandalized a few temples and set scores of houses ablaze after a couple of lowlifes made declarations in mosques prompting the horde to go after under claims of profanation in Jaranwala town, Faisalabad.

The episode which occurred on August 16 started shock via web-based entertainment and among political and strict figures in the country, who censured the occurrence, expressing that there was no space for such outrageous way of behaving.

Denouncing the occurrence as "incredibly awful and absolutely painful", COAS Gen Munir focused on that "there is no space for such episodes of prejudice and outrageous way of behaving".

"The Jaranwala occurrence is incredibly heartbreaking and absolutely painful. There is no space for such occurrences of bigotry and outrageous conduct by any fragment of the general public against anybody, especially against minorities," the military boss was cited by the ISPR as saying a month ago.

Guardian Top state leader Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar had additionally scolded the occurrence and guaranteed of severe activity against the culprits. The chief had conveyed checks of Rs2 million each among the individuals from the Christian people group whose houses were annihilated because of crowd brutality.

Independently, High Court (SC) Boss Equity Qazi Faez Isa had likewise visited Jaranwala to "express fortitude" with the Christian people group.

In a bid to test the terrible episode in Faisalabad's Jaranwala, encourage interfaith and interdenominational solidarity, and subdue radical stories, the Pakistan Ulema Board (PUC) and Church of Pakistan mutually settled a 24-part panel on August 20.

Specialists had enrolled two cases under charges of psychological oppression and disrespect including 13 different arrangements, against the pyromaniacs in Jaranwala, where 37 suspects were designated and in excess of 600 unidentified individuals were remembered for the examination.

Tending to the chance of "outer association" in the episode, Punjab Reviewer General Police (IGP) Dr Usman Anwar had uncovered that "threatening organizations" were connected to the Jaranwala occurrence which included fierce assaults.

A three-part SC seat including Equity Ijaz-Ul-Ahsan, Equity Muneeb Akhtar and Equity Jamal Khan Mandokhail is hearing the situation after minority pioneer Samuel Pyaray moved the SC under a different request, to consider the Jaranwala misfortune.