SRINAGAR: Kashmir Grand Mufti, Maulana Mohammad Basheerudin Ahmad is in Iran to attend an intertional conference of Ulema and Islamic Awakening.
The conference was held in Tehran 29th & 30th April 2013 which was attended by a galaxy of seven thousand renowned religious scholars from all over the world.
The conference was divided into four sessions. The inaugural session was presided-over by the Supreme leader of Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Khamenei.
One of the sessions of the conference was presided-over by the Kashmirs Grand Mufti while as the fourth and final session was presided-over by President Mahmud Ahmadinajad, a statement from the office of Grand Mufti said.
Mufti Azam of J&K expressed his grave concern over the destruction of holy shrines in Syria and other problems of Islamic world, the statement said.
He also expressed concern & anguish over the plight of the Palestinian people suffering tremendously under Zionist oppression as well as hitherto unresolved Kashmir dispute which has caused tremendous sufferings to the Kashmiri people and resultant potent threat of a nuclear holocaust in the subcontinent.
Mufti Azam had a thorough and detailed meeting with President Ahmadinajad in the presidential palace during which, the centuries old relations between Kashmir and Iran were discussed.
Mufti Azam strongly supported the right of Islamic Republic of Iran to defend its territorial sovereignty and integrity and develop peaceful nuclear energy. The plight of Burmese Muslims, suffering under state sponsored pogroms was also raised.
Mufti Azam also stressed upon the millennia old relations between Iran and Kashmir which were cemented by the arrival of Hazrat Amir Kabir, Mir Sayyid Ali Hamdani popularly known as Shah-i-Hamadan Sahib RA, in Kashmir.
Mufti Azam also prayed for the prosperity and progress of Islamic nations and the nations of the subcontinent, the statement said.
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