KHAR: Noted religious scholar and Jumaat Ishaat Al Tauheed Wal Sunnah chief Maulana Mohammad Tayyab has said that there is no room for terrorism and extremism in Islam.

Addressing a convention at a seminary in Qadafi area here on Saturday, he said that students and teachers of the religious schools were peace loving and polite like other citizens of the country.

Maulana Tayyab said that Islam was not only the name of a religion of Muslims, but it’s a complete code of life that promoted tolerance and brotherhood among all human beings in the world.

Maulana Tayyab says students, teachers of seminaries peaceful people

He said that those people, who linked Islam to terrorism and extremism, had either no knowledge of Islam or did it intentionally to dub it as a religion of intolerance.

The religious scholar said that such elements would never successes in their nefarious mission to defame Islam. “The world Islam means peace and all religions share common values such as peace, love, justice and humanity,” he added.

About reforms in tribal areas, Maulana Tayyab said that it was need of the hour to replace the current colonial governance system in Fata with country’s regular laws to provide basic rights to tribal people.

He said that merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was necessary to promote economic activities in tribal areas.

He asked the federal government to implement the Fata reforms plan immediately so that tribal people could enjoy basic rights without further delay.

SEWING MACHINES: The social welfare department distributed sewing machines among persons with disabilities in Bajaur Agency on Saturday.

The sewing machines were handed over to 5o persons with disabilities at a ceremony held at the agency headquarters hospital in Khar.

Agency Zakat Committee chairman Haji Gul Rahman and officials of local administration, health department and social welfare department attended the ceremony.

Tribal elders, workers of various political and religious parties and office-bearers of All Bajaur Disabled Persons Association were also present on the occasion.

Speakers on the occasion said that physically challenged persons were members of the society and the schemes funded by federal government would facilitate disabled persons in the agency.

The physically challenged persons thanked the federal government for providing them with sewing machines and others facilities.

Published in Dawn, March 26th, 2017