KARACHI: The Sindh branch of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) on Wednesday held its second follow-up coordination meeting on climate change with eminent religious scholars and other stakeholders at the Emergency Operations Centre Hilal-i-Ahmer House Karachi.
The PRCS and religious scholars vowed to preach the adaptation of good ways to live a healthy life and reduce the negative effects of climate change in the context of Islamic teachings.
The event was presided over by the chairman PRCS-Sindh Shahnaz S. Hamid and former federal minister and chairman of Al-Mustafa Welfare Society Haji Mohammad Hanif Tayyab.
It was attended by Mufti Mohammad Zubair, Maulana Abdul Waheed, Maulana Tanveer-ul-Haq Thanvi, Mir Mohammad Abbas, Ziaur Rehman Akhwani, besides a large number of religious scholars and people from different professions.
The purpose of the meeting was to get the consent of religious scholars on a declaration to effectively disseminate the message of climate change from an Islamic perspective, including various trainings on different components of climate change, disaster management, and first aid to increase the capacity of madressahs and masjids.
Published in Dawn, March 19th, 2021
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