*ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed on Monday to protectminorities’ places of worship in the country and develop them. *
Addressing a Minority Day celebration at President House, he saidinitially, the Hindu elite dominated this are but we moved them aside andestablished the Muslim elite. But that wasn’t why Pakistan was made, hesaid.
Muslims rise when they follow the path of the State of Madina (Madina kiRiyasat), he quoted Allama Iqbal as saying. We are following this, said thepremier, adding that they are starting chairs at universities so people getPhDs and scholarships to understand the true concept.
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But one of the main concepts of the State of Madina was fairness, he said.It was based on the fact that we are all the children of Hazarat Adam(pbuh), he said, adding that there was religious freedom in the State ofMadina as well.
