KARACHI, Dec 18: The Nazim of Karachi, Naimatullah Khan, has said that a Quran and Sunnah Academy has been established and would be inaugurated formally soon.

He was speaking at a ceremony at the Nazimabad police station where he inaugurated the first-ever library of Islamic books on Wednesday.

The Nazim said that a number of Islamic programmes had been chalked out under this academy. The establishment of libraries of Islamic books at about 100 police stations in the city was part of such programmes, he added.

The city government’s Quran and Sunnah Academy, in collaboration with Dawa Academy and International Islamic University, is setting up these libraries.

The Nazim said that the city government’s Fahm-i-Quran programme was part of the ideology of Pakistan and keeping this objective in view, the government was keenly pursuing establishment of an Islamic welfare society. Effort in this direction, he added, were making significant progress.

He pointed out that Islamic books were being provided to police officers and other staff for which libraries within the premises of police stations were essential.

The CCPO, Asad Ashraf Malik, said in his speech that these libraries would greatly contribute to the perfect mental reformation of policemen. Besides improving their religious approach, he added, the libraries would develop an interest among them in book reading and help them in character building.

He observed that in this society, police were subjected to all sorts of criticism though they also emerged from the very society.

Others who delivered speeches at the ceremony were the DIG, Tariq Jamil, Nazim of Liaquatabad Town, Dr Pervez Mahmood, General Secretary of the Alamgir Welfare Trust, Haji Mohammed Rafi and the Regional Director of Dawa Academy, Mahmood Ahmed Farooqi.

Mahmood Ahmed Farooqi said that the Dawa Academy had established 135 libraries in hospitals and prisons of the country and that each of the libraries had a stock of 500 books.—APP