Pak must be labelled as terrorist state: Muslims

Tribune News Service

Haridwar, October 8

Thousands of Muslims took part in a protest march here yesterday demanding declaration of Pakistan as a terrorist state.

Muslim clerics and minority leaders warned Pakistan against inciting division among various communities of India. "Muslims in India are as much Indians as Hindus, Sikhs, Christians or Jains are," they said.

The protesters burnt an effigy of Pakistan at the Jama Masjid tri-section. They demanded that the United Nations and countries such as the USA, Russia, England and France take stringent action against Pakistan for fuelling terrorism in India and in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

Hazi Irfan Ansari said people of all sects should come forward against terrorism as youths were being misled in the name of religion. “We should support the Indian Army and the Union Government in their efforts against terrorism and ensure that all are united in the war against terrorism. We all are with the families of our jawans who died in the Uri base camp attack and in other similar strikes by terrorists. Pakistan is trying to disrupt peace in India but this will lead to its isolation internationally as Pakistan doesn’t know that despite religious-ethnic-sectarian diversity, all Indians are united,” he said.

Several Hindus also joined the protest after knowing its agenda.

BS Tejiyan, a local resident, said he took part in the protest march, which showed the unity and patriotism of the people of the country, irrespective of their religion or region.