SIALKOT: Pakistan has successfully foiled an “international conspiracy” to ignite sectarian violence in the country, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Saturday.
International lobbies, including India, never wanted to see Pakistan as a politically and economically viable country, for which they keep hatching conspiracies to ignite religious violence in the country, he said, while addressing a ‘Seerat Conference’ in Narowal.
Iqbal also urged the clerics of Pakistan to play their role in promoting religious and sectarian harmony, brotherhood and peace in the society.
Blaming India for the recent unrest in the country, the minister said since the initiation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, India has been hatching [all kinds of] conspiracies to sabotage the project.
But the CPEC is an ample proof of everlasting friendship between Pakistan and China, he asserted, adding that India was still trying to damage the project.
Iqbal also stressed the need for unity among Muslim s to counter the “international anti-Islam conspiracies”, saying that that it was high time for Muslims all over the world to shun their differences for the glory of Islam.
He expressed complete solidarity with the oppressed people of occupied Jammu Kashmir, Myanmar and Palestine.