The National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said the blast inside a mosque in Pakistan has shown that people are treading a path that leads to hell. He expressed grief over the loss of innocent lives in the suicide bombing incident.
“It is unfortunate that now blasts are taking place inside mosques as well. It shows that how far we have gone from Allah. We are treading the path that will lead to hell fire,” Abdullah told reporters in Pampore town of Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district.
The former Chief Minister had gone to the south Kashmir town to offer condolences to Mohammad Riyaz Hamadani, after the death of his mother. Abdullah said the entire Muslim world was in chaos and engulfed in violence.
At least 31 people died ans 169 injured, after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Imambargah Khadijah-tul-Kubra in the Tarlai area of Islamabad during Friday prayers.
Asked if Pakistan should be declared a terrorist state, the NC president refused to comment.
Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir’s Shia community held a candlelight march to pay tribute to the victims of the suicide bombing at a mosque in Islamabad.
Speaking to a news agency, a protester demanded that the Pakistan Army bring the guilty to justice. “We held this candle march against the attack that happened in Islamabad, Pakistan, in which people were martyred while reading ‘namaz’. We have demanded that the Pakistan Army bring the guilty to justice.”
Another protestor said, “The protest and the candlelight march were held against those who were killed in the terror attack in Pakistan. This has not happened in Pakistan for the first time.”
The Ministry of External Affairs has also condemned the bombing, which claimed several lives, while calling the accusations made by the neighbouring country against India in the incident as “baseless” and “pointless”.
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