Decree awarding clerics, religious scholars of Pakistan should remove supplications About Kashmir, Palestine From their sermons.
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Posted on: 10/3/2025
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Decree awarding clerics, religious scholars of Pakistan should remove supplications About Kashmir, Palestine From their sermons.
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Decree awarding clerics, religious scholars of Pakistan should remove supplications About Kashmir, Palestine From their Friday and Eids sermon. It has been full 78 years since Pakistan was founded, the decree awarding clerics religious scholars have been yelling the impression in their routine sermons that they have deep sympathy with the people of Palestinian and Kashmiri, through heart-clinching supplications. As a matter of fact, they have equally been mentioning Kashmir and Palestine in their sermons aiming at minting money through public donations in the guise of these causes. The proof is the incumbent government, without even announcing the establishment of a Palestinian state, has accepted the 20-point plan presented by U.S. President Donald Trump and has declared it the best solution to the long-standing Israel–Palestine conflict.
Prime Minister Mian Muhammed Shehbaz Sharif and his cabinet ministers paid rich tribute to President Trump for presenting that 20-point peace plan and even nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in an ecstatic tone, also mentioned the role of Field Marshal Gen. Syed Asim Munir and his own personal efforts in preparing this 20-point plan with President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. There, then, rises a reciprocally important question: Was Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his cabinet ministers unaware that in this 20-point plan of President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu, there is no mention whatsoever of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state? Did the Prime Minister and his ministers not carefully read the draft of the 20-point peace plan?
Today, the silence adopted by Pakistani Muftis and religious scholars on this extremely important and sensitive issue of Palestine is not only deeply regrettable but is nothing less than a criminal act. Therefore, these Muftis and scholars should now remove all references to Palestine and Kashmir from their Friday and Eid sermons and stop deceiving the Pakistani nation in the name of Palestine and Kashmir. As for the Kashmir issue, since the creation of Pakistan until today, Pakistani Muftis and scholars have devoured trillions of rupees in the name of the oppressed Kashmiris. And today, when the people of Kashmir are staging wheel-jam strikes and protests for their legitimate rights, they are being shot and martyred or injured by security forces personnel. Yet, on this government oppression, brutality, and bloodshed against the oppressed Kashmiri people, Pakistani Muftis and scholars have maintained silence, which is nothing less than a criminal act. If the Muftis and scholars cannot even utter two words in sympathy with the oppressed Palestinians and Kashmiris, then at the very least they should refrain from using supplicatory words in their sermons about Palestinians and Kashmiris, which only adds further salt to the wounds of these oppressed nations.
Altaf Hussain.
London. [UK].
October 3, 2025.
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