Rally Held in Protest at Islamabad’s Anti-Shia Policies
According to IQNA dispatches, speakers at the rally condemned the government’s recent moves against a number of Shia scholars.
The government of Pakistan has recently banned several prominent Shia scholars from leaving the country under the pretext of fighting extremism.
Sheikh Mohsen Ali Najafi, a senior Quran scholar, is among those blacklisted by the authorities.
The measures against the Shia community, which is a peaceful community without any links to radicalism and extremism, comes while the government has failed to fight extremism in the country which has its roots in the radical Wahhabi and Salafist ideology.
Meanwhile, although the government has banned any rallies and gatherings in the capital, a group of radicals took to the streets in Islamabad on Saturday and chanted slogans against Shia Muslims.
