- ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday denounced the burning of Islam’s holy book by a US pastor, saying it was serious setback to efforts to promote harmony in the world.
In his annual address to the Parliament, Zardari asked for the promotion of inter-faith harmony and said such acts were harmful to inter-faith harmony.
The Christian preacher Terry Jones, who after international condemnation last year canceled a plan to burn copies of the Qur’an to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, supervised the burning of the book in front of a crowd of about 50 people at an obscure church in Florida on Sunday, according to his website.
Zardari said Pakistan expects that the US administration and the American people as well as all civilized societies to take due cognizance and express their revulsion against this sacrilegious act.