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Thursday, June 17, 1999

Imams flay Pak `barbarism', volunteer to go to border

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA  
NEW DELHI, JUNE 16: Muslim clergy (Imams) today volunteered to go to Kargil to fight Pak-backed infiltrators and castigated Pakistan for its barbaric activities during the conflict.

Carrying placards and banners `All Imams are with government and Army' and `Indian Imams will take revenge for each drop of blood of our martyrs', a delegation of Imams from across the country met Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and assured the support of the clergy for all actions taken in Kargil.

Maulana Sajid Rashidi, president of Delhi Imam Association, who led the 25-member delegation, supported Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's statement that India would not yield even an inch of land to Pakistan.

He also flayed Pakistan for its barbaric activities and said mutilation of bodies of Indian soldiers was against the tenets of Islam.

``It is regrettable that Islamabad has violated all accords including the Lahore agreement,'' he said and declared that Muslims were solidly behindany action the government took against the infiltrators and Pakistani soldiers.

Volunteering to go to the borders to fight the infiltrators, Maulana Syed Salauddin from Andhra Pradesh said ``let Pakistan make no mistake. There are still thousands of Haneffuddin in this country who will sacrifice their lives for their motherland.''

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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