[DAWN] Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Saturday claimed that Pakistain successfully foiled an "international conspiracy" to ignite sectarian violence in the country.While addressing a conference in Narowal Iqbal said that "disbelievers" want to sabotage peace of the Moslem Ummah by hatching anti-Islam conspiracies.
He was of the view that international lobbies, including India, never want to see Pakistain as a politically and economically stable country, for which they keep hatching conspiracies to ignite religious and sectarian violence in Pakistain.
"Pakistain has successfully launched China-Pakistain Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, prompting India to hatch conspiracies to spoil the project and the ongoing development," the minister said.
Ahsan Iqbal stressed the need for unity in the Moslem Ummah to foil the international anti-Islam conspiracies, saying it was high time for the "Moslem world to forge unity among its ranks and shun their differences for the glory of Islam".
He expressed complete solidarity with the oppressed people of occupied Jammu and Kashmire, Myanmar, and Paleostine.
Iqbal said Islam presents a global system of foolproof security and peace, adding that forces of Evil had no religion, as every religion of the world gives the lessons of love, peace and respect for humanity. "The present wave of terrorism was a conspiracy against the Moslem Ummah."
The interior minister also urged the religious scholars to play their role in promoting religious and sectarian harmony, brotherhood, unity, faith, and peace in society.