Zakir Naik to start 10-day go to to Karachi tomorrow

PMs Youth Programme Chairman Rana Mashhood (left) along other government officials is escorting scholar Dr Zakir Naik at the Islamabad airport on September 30, 2024. —Screengrab/ X/ @drzakiranaik
PM’s Youth Programme Chairman Rana Mashhood (left) alongside different authorities officers is escorting scholar Dr Zakir Naik on the Islamabad airport on September 30, 2024. —Screengrab/ X/ @drzakiranaik
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KARACHI: Famous non secular scholar Dr Zakir Naik will arrive on a 10-day official go to on Wednesday in Karachi, the place he’ll maintain essential conferences and handle an occasion.

Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori, Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah and Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab will obtain Dr Zakir on the airport. The Particular Safety Unit (SSC) of Sindh Police will present safety to the state visitor, stated police authorities.

The globally celebrated persona, who left India in 2016, is scheduled to fulfill a number of high non secular students of Pakistan together with Mufti Taqi Usmani, Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, Jamia Tur Rasheed head Mufti Abdul Rahim and others.

He’ll meet senior bureaucrats and officers of Sindh as effectively, other than visiting an essential authorities institute on October 4.

Then, Dr Zakir will handle an occasion on the Bagh-e-Quaid, positioned reverse mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, on October 5. Whereas, he’ll maintain non-public conferences from October 7 to 10.

After that, he’ll depart from the metropolis for Lahore the following morning on October 11.

The 58-year-old eminent non secular scholar and public speaker reached Pakistan on the invitation of the federal government on September 30.

Throughout his a few month-long keep in Pakistan, which is able to final until October 28, Dr Zakir will maintain public gatherings in numerous cities, lead Friday prayers and also will meet senior authorities officers.

The famend scholar’s go to comes after he confirmed in a social media put up on X relating to his Pakistan tour alongside together with his son Shaikh Fariq Naik.

Within the meantime, he had a short assembly with Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar as effectively in Islamabad.

As per the schedule shared by Dr Zakir, he’ll handle public rallies in Karachi on October 5 and 6, adopted by these set to happen in Lahore on October 12 and 13.

In the meantime, the scholar will handle public gatherings in Islamabad on October 19 and 20.

Upon his arrival on Monday, Dr Zakir was acquired by PM’s Youth Programme Chairman Rana Mashhood, Further Secretary Ministry of Non secular Affairs and Interfaith Concord Dr Syed Attaur Rehman, Parliamentary Secretary for Non secular Affairs Shamshir Ali Mazari and different officers.

The medical physician has been residing in Malaysia for years, the place he enjoys a everlasting residence, as he’s wished in India over alleged involvement in cash laundering and inciting extremism, Hindustan Instances reported.

The esteemed scholar was born on October 18, 1965, to Abdul Karim Naik and Roshan Naik in Bombay, India.