SIALKOT: An interfaith gathering at the shelling-hit village of Sialkot on Wednesday prayed for the departed souls.

The Pakistan Council for Social Welfare and Human Rights (PCSWHR) organised the event at Kundanpur village along the Sialkot Working Boundary.

Religious leaders and clerics (Muslims, Hindus and Christians) prayed for the eternal peace of the departed souls and stressed that every religion of the world preaches love, affection, peace, tolerance, brotherhood and respect for humanity.

PCSWHR chairman Muhammad Ejaz Noori, Pakistan Ulema Mashaikh Council chairman Dr Mufti Najeeb Ahmed Hashmi, Prof Javaid Kumar, a prominent Hindu cleric, Arjan Das, Ravi Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Puran Chand and Parkash Kumar, Tahir Mehmood Hundali (former MPA), Emanuel Gill (Jamaat-i-Islami Minorities Wing Sialkot president) and local Christian leaders Dr Rafiq Yaqub, Sarfraz Maseeh and Muhammad Asghar Kahilun condemned the hostilities of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Sialkot border villages.

They expressed solidarity with the people affected by the unprovoked Indian shelling and urged the world community to take serious notice of the Indian aggression besides using its influence to halt the repeated ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and Working Boundary.

They said the Modi government was trying to divert the world attention from the ongoing riots in Indian State Gujarat by shelling on Pakistani territories and targeting the civilian population.

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2015

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