The premier, while strongly condemning the targeted killing of Maulana Adil of Jamia Farooqia in Karachi, said that India is attempting to target religious scholars to fan sectarian rift in the country. A third person, Umair, had also been accompanying Maulana Adil, policed added, and he survived the incident as he had gone inside the shopping centre to buy sweets. Earlier on Sunday, Maulana Adil’s funeral prayers were offered at the Jamia Farooqia, Hub River Road Phase II by his brother Maulana Obaidullah Khalid. Well-known religious scholars including Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, Mufti Muhammad Rafi Usmani, Maulana Hanif Jalandhari, Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, Maulana Rashid Soomro, Jamia Banuria Mufti Noman and Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman were in attendance. Maulana Adil was buried at Farooqia University next to his father Maulana Saleemullah Khan.

Source: Pakistan Today October 11, 2020 13:22 UTC