Indian Muslims worried over situation in Pakistan, says leader

HYDERABAD, June 11: Jamaat-i-Islami Hind chief Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri has said that Indian Muslims are worried about situation in Pakistan.

Addressing a reception hosted in his honour by local chapter of the JI here on Sunday evening, he emphasised the need for amicable solution of Kashmir dispute and said Indian Muslims believed war was not the best option to resolve a dispute.

He said that Pakistan, Bangladesh and India were a reality and the countries should accept each other wholeheartedly. Although Muslims were considered weak in India but Islam was flourishing there. The Holy Quran had been translated into 13 major languages of India to convey message of Islam, he said.

He said that Indian government had started paying attention to reports that focussed on socio-economic conditions of Muslims but its result would take time to make itself felt.

JI India, he said, was working for the welfare of Muslims. The party did not participate in elections but workers were free to take part in elections from the platform of any political party while maintaining the party's discipline, he said. He said that extremists could not afford to see Muslims in power in India but at the same time they could not afford to challenge them. JI was working for capacity-building of Muslims academically, many micro-financing schemes were under way for economic wellbeing of Muslims, he said.

He said the Muslims associated with trade were more content than others. Dr Zakir Naik was a sound scholar but one individual could not live up to expectations of all people in a country as big as India, he said.

Source: Dawn