HYDERABAD, Jan 30: Representatives of political and religious parties have called for unity among Muslims and stresses the need for maintaining harmony during Moharram.
They said Muslims were brothers and the shedding of blood of any Muslim by the other was a heinous crime in Islam.
They were speaking at the All-Parties Moharram-ul-Haram Peace Conference organized by the Ittehad Bainul Muslimeen and the Shia Ulema Council at the Qadamgah Maula Ali on Sunday.
People's Party Parliamentarian MPA Zahid Bhurgari, Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Arshad Shah, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MPA Rehman Rajput, MMA leader Waheed Qureshi, MQM leader Siraj Rajput, religious scholars Allama Altaf Al-Hussaini and Nizamul Haideri, City Taluka Nazim Haji Moin Shaikh, Maulana Taj Mohammad Nahiyoo and Hyderabad DPO A.D. Khuwaja spoke on the occasion.
They said the city of Hyderabad was named after the fourth caliph of Islam Hazrat Ali (Haider-i-Karar) and it had always remained a citadel of peace and brotherhood. They said the leaders of the political and religious parties, members of the business community and lawyers would strive for peace and unity.
They resolved to forge unity among people during Majalis (religious congregations) and Azadari (mourning processions). A message of the senior vice-president of the MMA and chief of the Millat-i-Jafria, Allama Sajid Ali Naqvi, was read out at the conference.
Allama Naqvi stressed the need for maintaining unity among the Muslims during Moharram. He said conspiracies of enemies of the Islam should be foiled through unity.
The conference adopted several resolutions, demanding arrest of murderers of Allama Ziauddin Rizvi and urged the government to make foolproof arrangements for protection of other religious scholars during Moharram.
A resolution demanded that all indecent programmes on TV channels should be banned. Another resolution demanded that all political prisoners should be released and remission should be awarded to ordinary prisoners.
