KARACHI, Jan 9: Sindh minister for religious and minorities affairs Maulana Muhammad Wali Raazi has said that mosque is an important institution in Islam.

He was presiding over a meeting held on Wednesday to consider the setting up of model mosques in major cities of the province.

The meeting was attended by City Nazim Naimatullah Khan, DCO Karachi, Secretary of Religious Affairs Fasih-ud-Din Khan, Chief Administrator of Auqaf and other high officers.

The minister said that after the demise of Quaid-i-Azam, a committee, headed by Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, was formed which included eminent scholars, like Syed Suleman Nadvi, Allama Shabbir Ahmed Usmani, Maulana Abdul Hamid Badayuni and Mufti Muhammad Shafi.

The object of this committee was to study feasibility of establishing a mosque and a madressah (school) in the vicinity of Quaid’s mausoleum.

He informed that this committee had completed its task and its record must be with the Sindh government.—APP