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Posts published in “Day: June 12, 2013

Committee formed: Kashmiri refugees’ issues to be solved soon

MUZAFFARABAD: The government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Tuesday constituted a three-member committee headed by the chief secretary of Azad Kashmir  Ilm Din Balu to address the issues of 1989 Kashmiri refuges settled in AJK. According to the sources, the AJK government has taken the Kashmiri refugees Monday sit-in and rally in front of Central Press Club seriously  and formed  a body on the special instructions of  Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majid to…

Shia delegation attends Tablighi Ijtima: By Shabbir Mir in Express Tribune, June 11

GILGIT: Shia cleric Agha Rahat Hussaini and 200 adherents set an unforeseen precedent for religious tolerance as they attended a Deobandi scholar’s lecture in a Sunni congregation. The Tablighi Ijtima, which started on June 9 in Gilgit, is attended by hundreds of thousands from across the country and is held under the banner of the Tablighi Jamaat, a Sunni organisation. The sermon was delivered by Deobandi preacher Maulana Tariq Jamil. Hussaini, who is a top…