Hawzah News Agency (Lahore, Pakistan) - Delegates from across Muslim world, scholars and representatives of religious organizations from different Muslim countries have reached Lahore to attend the conference, according to PUC Chairman Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi. 

Talking to media on Sunday at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal, Ashrafi said that ambassadors of Muslim countries, dignitaries and some 5,000 Ulema from all over Pakistan are attending the conference, the Daily Times reported. 

“Muslim Ummah should get united and launch joint struggle to annihilate the menace of terrorism, extremism and sectarianism,” he said, adding that religious scholars should devise a unanimous and cohesive mechanism to foil conspiracies of terrorists and extremists. 

He underlined that the conference is being organized to devise a unanimous mechanism against terrorism, extremism, sectarian violence and foreign interference in affairs of Muslim countries.

Delegates from more than 12 Muslim countries are visiting Pakistan to attend the conference.

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