Saturday September 22, 2018
Kabul (BNA) Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah participated in a ceremony held Thursday on the occasion of tribute to Ashura in Jamiul Zahra and Zainabia mosques in Kabul’s west.
In the ceremony, the country’s Chief Executive condoled the Ashura day to the world Muslims in particular Muslim nation of Afghanistan. In his speech, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah considered uprising of Imam Hussain and Karbala incident as unprecedented in history of Islam and the world, saying although Imam Hussain and his colleagues were martyred in Karbala, they marked the victory of justice against injustice and brightness against darkness; therefore, millions of freedom-loving and justice-loving Muslims gather every year to pay tribute to the Ashura Day. The country’s Chief Executive also added that the incident of Karbala has been marked with blood of great martyrs in the history of world and Muslims and opened new chapter in defending the right, resistance, bravery and sacrifices on path of Almighty Allah and fighting injustice and tyranny. Pointing to current situation in the country, Chief Executive said; “We better witness unity and solidarity among Sunni and Shia during the month of Muharram in particular days of Ashura and Tasoa and we hope further efforts towards solidarity among our people.” “Currently the people and national defense and security forces of the country are fighting against darkness and the forces will soon defeat the cruel enemies of the country and we can only defeat them by protection of national unity and solidarity,” Chief Executive added.
