Staff Report
QUETTA: Leaders of political parties, scholars, intellectuals, and writers have said that Imam Khomeini and his companions did not back down from their goal, and despite enduring the hardships of imprisonment, they established an Islamic revolution in Iran.
They said this during the academic conference titled “Islamic Revolution, Hayat Tayyaba and Great Islamic Civilization,” held here on Saturday on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
Iran’s Consul General Hassan Darvish in Quetta, and leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Balochistan Dr. Ataur Rehman, Abdul Matin Akhunzada, Jamiat Ulema Islam and Majlis Khatman Nabubat Qari Anwar Haqqani attended the conference.
Jameel Ahmed Kurd, President of Anjuman Dabistan Bolan, Professor Sadaf Chingizi, the University of Balochistan Professor Dr. Abdul Rauf Rafiqi, Imam Juma Hujatul Islam Allama Syed Hassan Preacher, Director General of Khana Farhang Quetta Syed Hussain Taqizada Waqfi, Chairman Patriotic Youth Movement Meraj Kakar, Ghulam Jilani addressed the gathering.
Speakers discuss salient features of Iran’s Islamic Revolution
Addressing the ceremony, the speakers said that Pakistan and Iran were neighboring and friendly countries that were bound by the ties of religion, culture, and brotherhood. The speakers noted that Iran’s Islamic revolution has progressed in all fields despite the western sanctions.
“The enemy created the division between Shia and Sunni,” they said, adding that the Shah of Iran put more than 10 thousand scholars in prisons, but they faced failure, and the movement of Imam Khomeini was accepted by the Iranian people and achieved the destination.
Despite all the conspiracies, obstacles, and restrictions, the 44th anniversary of the Iranian revolution is being celebrated, and the journey of development and prosperity continued in Iran is a role model for other Muslim countries, they expressed.
