ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The three-day mourning announced by Pakistani Shias leader and TNFJ Chief Agha Hamid Moosavi in connection with tragic martyrdoms of hundreds of Azadaran as a result of mortar bomb attacks on the Matmi procession taken out in Baghdad (Kazmia) on the occasion of Shahadat of Hazrat Imam Moosa Kazim (A.S.) and the Baghdad bridge tragedy, concluded.

Ulema and speakers during Friday congregations paid homage to the Shuhada of Baghdad bridge tragedy and lodged strong protest over the attack on Matmi procession and continued bloodshed in Iraq.

In Federal Capital Islamabad, a Majlis-e-Aza under the District Ayyam-e-Sog Committee of TNFJ was held at Darbar Sakhi Mahmood Badshah followed by a peaceful protest rally led by ulema, religious, political and social elites at Aabpara Chowk against desecration of holy places in Iraq, and bloodshed on innocent Iraqi people.

TNFJ District Islamabad President Allama Basharat Hussain Imami criticising the tragedy said it was the job of international colonial powers that were using different tactics to cease the resources of all Muslim States including Iraq. The participants of the procession, by completing the route of the procession, proved that the voice of the righteousness could not be suppressed.

A resolution adopted on the occasion said lakhs of people were martyred in Iraq after the interference of allied forces, many cities were razed to ground and holy places of Najaf, Karbala and Kazmain desecrated. The resolution said that the solution of this situation is that rulers of Muslim States submit themselves to Allah instead of international Taghoot, come out from their shells and consider attack on any Muslim and oppressed State an attack on Shariat and humanity.

The resolution lamented that State terrorism was going on in Kashmir and Palestine for more than a half century, lakhs of people have been massacred but the Islamic World, Arab League and OIC were keeping a criminal silence. It called upon the whole Islamic World to raise voice against oppression going on in all Islamic States while OIC should take stock of the critical situation and devise a courageous and joint strategy. The resolution made it clear that right could not suppressed through such condemnable tactics of terrorism and bloodshed.

The resolution said Azadari is that live miracle that more it was suppressed the more it springs up, the proof is continuation of Taboot procession by lakhs of people despite martyrdom of more than a thousand people.

He said the silence of human rights champions and international organisations including the OIC on the Baghdad bridge tragedy is meaningful and provides food for thought. He expressed his shock that western media and colonial agents have tried to give the Baghdad tragedy a wrong colour but they should keep in mind that righteousness and truth could not be hidden. Mutual unity and brotherhood expressed by the Iraqi people without any discrimination on the basis of Maslak or sect has proved that no power on earth could create differences amongst them.

The resolution while expressing complete solidarity with the oppressed people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine believed that these States would see the dawn of independence one day and the enemies of Islam and humanity would fail in their heinous designs.

Paying homage to the martyrs of Baghdad bridge tragedy the resolution said that practical display of unity and brotherhood by Iraqi people is a slap in the face of evil forces that was utilising all its energy in pitching Maktab against Maktab and country against country so that it would tell the world that Muslim are not only divided rather they are extremists and violent so that ground to declare them terrorists could be laid.

Majlis-e-Aza for the martyrs of Baghdad bridge tragedy was held at Imambargah Zain-ul-Abideen (A.S.) under the auspices of TNFJ District Ayyam-e-Sog Committee. District President TNFJ Alhaj Ghulam Murtaza Chauhan, Allama Syed Zahid Abbas Kazmi, Maulana Syed Tabassum Abbas Kazmi addressed the gathering while Syed Abd-e-Hadi recited the Hadees-e-Kisa. Matamdari and Noha-Khwani was performed by Matmi Dasta Ghulaman-e-Abu Talib (A.S.) after the Majlis.