*KABUL – The member of Afghanistan’s Ulema Council (AUC) says PakistaniUlema have reached a conclusion that suicide attack in Afghanistan is Haram[religiously forbidden].*
According to Mawlavi Abdullah Qarluq a senior member of AUC, the newdevelopment comes after Pakistani religious scholars participated in thetrilateral peace conference in Indonesia on May 11.
“Those [Pakistani] Ulema who used to issue Jihad fatwa in Afghanistan andtheir seminaries are the main bases or encouraging centers for theopposition groups or Taliban, had a different idea regarding the insurgencyin Afghanistan,” Qarluq said at a news conference in Kabul.
At the same event, Mawlavi Abdul Khabir Achqon another member of AfghanUlema Council said that meetings between Afghan and Pakistani religiousscholars will continue in the future in order to find a positive result.
On January 2018, more than 1,800 Pakistani clerics issued an Islamicdirective or fatwa, forbidding suicide bombings in Pakistan but thecountry’s clerics refused to denounce the ongoing violence in Afghanistanas Haram at Indonesia conference.