Pakistan Offers Help to Chinese Muslims
United Press International
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan —
This Islamic country has offered to help Chinese Muslims train clergymen and to renovate mosques and religious schools, a government spokesman said Sunday.
The offer was made by Maqbool Ahmad, minister of state for religious affairs, at a meeting in the Pakistani capital here with a visiting Chinese Muslim delegation headed by Hussain Heiboli.
Pakistan, whose leaders have recently been accepting some fundamentalist Islamic tenets, is an ally of China.
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