KARACHI: Top Religious Scholar Mufti Muneeb ur Rehman warns PM Khan overhis minister statement.
The Ruet-e-Hilal Committee has taken strong exception to Fawad Chaudhry’sstatement about the role of religious scholars in sighting of the moon andthe creation of Pakistan.
Chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to ‘reinin’ his ministers after the federal minister for science and technologylaunched a verbal attack on Islamic clerics, accusing them of making lunarsighting for Islamic months a controversial affair every year as well asopposing the creation of Pakistan.
“Fawad Chaudhry’s statement against the opposition is his personal matter,but he should exercise restraint while commenting on religious scholars andnot misquote history,” he said. “Who knows … one of them might also have arole in your [Fawad] appointment.”
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He urged the prime minister to control his “passionate” ministers, who“lack knowledge about the system”.
On Fawad’s remarks on social media that clerics had opposed the creation ofPakistan, Mufti Muneeb said, “The history bears witness to immensesacrifices rendered by Ulema during the freedom movement. It is notappropriate to cite the role of a few Ulema only to criticise others.
