Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has stressed that dialogue is the key to resolve prevailing political issues.
Addressing Mufti Mahmood Conference in Islamabad on Saturday, he urged to promote politeness in politics instead of polarization.
Chief of Jamiat Ulema Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman organized the conference here in memory of his father and former chief minister of North West Frontier Province Mufti Mehmood.
He said Mufti Mahmood was a great researcher and a leader who lived a simple and exemplary life. He said promotion of education was the aim of his life which he accomplished successfully.
The Prime Minister said Mufti Mahmood in his political career always believed in dialogue to resolve issues and set guiding principles for others. However, he regretted that politics has changed from politeness to polarization.
He paid tribute to Mufti Mehmood saying he was an eminent religious scholar, researcher, and political leader. “I have great admiration for religious scholars. Mufti Mehmood was a teacher and taught thousands of students at his madressah in Multan and rendered great services for the cause of Islam, he reminisced. He said Mufti Mehmood led a simple life and when he became chief minister of a coalition government of the present Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province he continued to engage his political contemporaries as he believed in dialogue. Mufti Mehmood was in politics during the eras of Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and never closed the door to talks with his political peers and promoted dialogue.
