BJP delegation in Kashmir gifted Quran books

The visiting BJP delegation headed by Rajnath Singh was gifted copies of the Holy Quran.

The visiting BJP delegation headed by Rajnath Singh was gifted copies of the Holy Quran translated into Hindi by a head of an NGO here,who wanted to

convey the message of peace.

“It was a pleasant surprise,” one the members of the delegation said after receiving a copy of the Holy book from Muhammad Farooq Khan here on Wednesday.

Khan said that he wanted to convey the “message of peace” to the BJP leadership.

“I am not an Islamic preacher but I wanted the leaders to understand the message of Islam,which is being misunderstood as terrorism,” he said.

Khan,who runs an NGO ‘Peace and Spirituality Initiative’,said he also wanted to impress upon the BJP leadership that Kashmiris were not “stone-pelters or terrorists as has been the general impression in the rest of the country”.

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