KARACHI, Aug 6: A Quran and Sunnat academy is being established at Al-Markazul Islami (Islamic Centre) in Federal B. Area, while decision to set up a model mosque will be taken soon, City Nazim Naimatullah Khan said.

He was speaking at the last session of the Fehmul Quran (understanding Quran) programme at Nishtar Park late Monday night.

“We will make Karachi an ideal city which will serve as an example for other cities,” he said. To disseminate the Quranic message throughout the city, he added, the Quran and Sunnat academy was being set up which would be inaugurated by a Pakistan Movement worker, intellectual and scholar, Prof Irfan Ahmed.

He said Muslims of the subcontinent had achieved Pakistan so as to present it as an Islamic welfare state before the world, like the model of Islamic welfare state which was presented by the holy Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him) in Madina.

“We won Pakistan but could not achieve the objectives of the Pakistan Movement,” he said, claiming that the city government was striving for the establishment of an Islamic welfare state. —APP/PPI