RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Birth anniversary of Hazrat Imam Zain-ul Abideen (A.S.) in connection with "Wila-e-Muhammad (SAW) and Aal-e-Muhammad (A.S.) Week" in line with the announcement made by Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi was marked throughout Pakistan like other global parts with religious spirit and respect.

Mahafil-e-milad, conferences and seminars were held marking the august occasion.

Addressing a mehfil-e-Zain-ul Abaa, TNFJ Rawalpindi regional council president Allama Abul Hasan Taqi at imambargah Sakhi Shah Pyara Kazmi Al-Mash’hadi said oppression, barbarism and fraud were rife in the life period of Imam Zain-ul Abideen (A.S.); no one was safe of it. Dictators and oppressors utilized all their energies in pushing him back from the path of right but he being chained and bearing the difficulties of imprisonment, not only tore apart the artificial veil of Islam from the faces of oppressors and despots through his great addresses in bazaars of Kufa and Sham, and courts of Yazid and Ibne Ziad, rather shook the palaces of Yazidiat and dictatorship.

He said Imam Zain-ul Abideen (A.S.) protected the blood of martyrs of Karbala. In these circumstances of continued oppression, he presented Sahifa-e-Sajjadia in form of a charter of protection of rights of human beings to save world of humanity and defeat oppression and barbarism. By following this charter, the whole human world could become a hub of peace.

A resolution adopted unanimously on this occasion demanded from the government to make sure implementation of Anti-Terrorism Act for durable peace in the country, and take strict measures to stop activities of banned groups under new names.

The resolution said the government’s crackdown against banned groups is so-called because no banned leader has been arrested yet. On the contrary, outlawed elements are included in political alliances and are being appreciated in the government and opposition circles. Media also gives them full coverage.

By another resolution, the participants strongly condemned colonial oppression on the most sacred soil of Iraq, desecration of holy places and massacre of innocent people, expressing full solidarity with the Iraqis.