RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: Youm-e-Dua (Day of Prayer) was observed throughout the country on Monday with religious and national spirit on the call of Quaid-i-Millat-i-Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi.

The Day began with recitation from the Holy Quran and Quran Khwani in mosques after Fajr prayers. Ulema, Waizeen and Zakireen addressed Majalis-e-Taraheem and highlighted the philosophy of Dua in detail. Prayer meetings were held in Federal Capital Islamabad, Azad Kashmir, Northern Areas, and all the four provinces including Rawalpindi Region as well as all small cities and towns under the auspices of religious organizations, religious institutions and trusts.

According to Asad Ali Hasani, Secretary Markazi Youm-e-Dua Committee of Tehreek Nafaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafariya, the A’aimma Masajid and ulema in their address strongly condemned the bloody riots that began in Karachi on Saturday and appealed the patriotic forces to practically display unity and brotherhood for the sake of national integrity and stability so as to thwart every conspiracy and mischief of the combined enemy who is adding fuel to the fire by fanning biases.

Hojjatul Islam Syed Hussain Kazmi, Chairman, Tanzeem Shia A’aimma Masajid Pakistan addressing the Youm-e-Dua congregation at “Al-Kazim” in Islamabad called upon the government and the opposition to stop the playing with fire and blood for prolonging and grabbing power, immediately. He said the respect and stability of national institutions is a must like the stability is necessary for country’s integrity and stability because this country’s was achieved by us by giving sacrifices and its protection is also binding on us.

Expressing great shock on the massacre of innocent citizens in Karachi, he expressed sympathy with the affected families and prayed for the high status of those who were killed and for early recovery of those who are injured.

Allama Syed Basim Abbas Zahiri, addressing a Youm-e-Dua gathering organized by Hay’at Tulaba-e-Islamia at Ali Hall said Karachi is the economic capital of Pakistan where people belonging to different sections of society live and the wave of riot in this city affects the whole country. He said the situation has reached the point during the last three days where the country may enter into a closed end if the situation was not improved. He said the killings and damage caused to the national property in Karachi has made the people of the country grieved because those who died were all Pakistanis despite belonging to any party or a group and the whole nation shares their grief.

Syed Qamar Haider Zaidi, Central Secretary Information of the TNFJ addressing the Majlis-e-Dua organized by Anjuman Faiz-e-Punjtan at Imambargah Zain-ul Aza expressed his concern over the precarious situation prevailing in Karachi and said this is the time for Dua and the whole nation should seek peace from Allah and inculcate the spirit of sacrifice displayed by them during the Tehreek-e-Pakistan by condemning all types of biases because our combined enemy desires to divide Pakistan into pieces in the brackets of Mohajir, Pathan, Sindhi, Balochi, and Punjabi by fanning differences amongst them. He said as per a saying of Quaid-i-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, murder of any human being is the murder of humanity and Pakistan. He expressed heartfelt sympathy with all mourning citizens and prayed for early recovery of the injured.

A resolution adopted on the occasion appealed all countrymen, particularly the people of Karachi to give priority to stability and integrity of the country over all other things because our survival lay in promotion of Islamic ideology, welfare of the people, denial of every type of biases, and fulfilment of the norms of justice and fair-play.

Condemning the Karachi incidents, the resolution called upon both the government and the opposition to give priority to Islam, Pakistan and its people over their party interests.

Another resolution strongly condemned the continued colonial oppression on the Iraqi soil and expressed complete solidarity with the oppressed people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Palestine.

A Youm-e-Dua meeting was organized under the auspices of Youm-e-Dua Committee of TNFJ District Rawalpindi. District President Alhaj Ghulam Murtaza Chauhan in his address on the occasion said that some occasions come in the life of some nations where display of sacrifice, patience, forbearance, and wisdom leads to come out of the crisis situation.

He said peace could be maintained in Karachi but the play of fire and blood began owing to the weakness of the government and insufficient arrangements and the government will have to take concrete steps to stop this non-sense while the people will have to condemn the miscreants at every level and express practical hatred against them. He said TNFJ is against all types of oppression and expresses solidarity with every oppressed. District Secretary Coordination Shafqat Ali Turabi and others also addressed the gathering.