Chairman of the Council of Scientists (Alimov) Pakistan's Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Al-Ashrafi is deeply touched by the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin on the inadmissibility of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and other insults to religious shrines. This was announced by Tahir Al-Ashrafi today during a telephone call to the First Deputy Chairman Of Religious Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation, Executive Secretary of the Muslim International Forum Damir Mukhetdinov.

Having conveyed warm greetings to the religious leader of Russian Muslims, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gaynutdin, the head of the Ulema Council of Pakistan spoke about the unprecedented resonance caused by the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual press conference on 23rd of December 2021. We are talking about the position of the Russian leader on the limits of freedom of creative expression.

"Insults against the Prophet Muhammad – what is it? Is this creative freedom? I think not. This is a violation of freedom of religion and a violation of the holy feelings of people who profess Islam, and this brings to life other, even more acute and extremist manifestations," the President of Russia is convinced.

According to Sheikh Al-Ashrafi, the people of Pakistan are delighted with the wisdom of the position of the head of the Russian state, as many newspapers of Pakistan have written about. According to him, a response from the top leadership of Pakistan is expected in the near future with an expression of gratitude to Vladimir Putin.