ISLAMABAD   -   The religious fraternity on Friday strongly condemned suicide attack on Imam Bargah in Peshawar which left nearly 60 people dead and 200 others injured.

Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan (MWM) has announced three-days mourning and has also decided to launch peaceful protests across the country on Sunday.

Shia scholar Allama Sajid Naqvi has demanded free and fair investigation into the attack. In a statement, Sajid Naqvi said that the culprits should be dealt with iron hand. “The rulers have failed to provide security to the people,” he said.

Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, Patron-In-Chief of Supreme Shia Ulema Board, has also condemned Peshawar bomb blast. He said that there is no conflict between Shias and Sunnis in the country. He urged unity among people from different schools of thoughts to defeat terrorists who are the enemies of Islam and Pakistan.

Meanwhile, Chief of (MWM) Allama Nasir Abbas has said that security forces have failed to protect the peaceful citizens of the country. The Peshawar incident, he said, has exposed the loopholes in the security system. “Terrorists and enemies of peace and Pakistan must be dealt with iron hand,” he added.

Chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has also condemned the Peshawar blast.

In a statement, the JUI-F chief said that attack on Imam Bargah in Peshawar has proved that there is no religion of terrorists. He said that the government has completely failed to maintain peace in the country.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman urged the government to arrest the culprits and justice should be delivered without any delay.