ISLAMABAD-
Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan on Friday said forced conversion of people to Islam violates the principles of Quran and Sunnah, a private news channel reported.
Khan’s comments followed the recent pronouncement of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) against Ismailis ( A Shia sect) and the Kalash, a polytheistic tribe living in the Chitral Valley in northern Pakistan.
The party chief said that PTI deeply respected all the sections of public and acknowledged their contributions in the country’s progress.
He demanded that the violence in Pakistan should come to an end, urging the state to safeguard the rights of all its citizens.
On February 2, TTP’s website released a 50-minute long video announcing an “armed struggle” against the Kalash and Ismaili Muslims.
The narrator in the video had warned the Kalash, numbered around only 3,500, to convert to Islam or face death.