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Prince Charles changes travel plans within Pakistan
Britain's Prince Charles, touring Pakistan to promote interfaith dialogue, hastily organised new travel plans yesterday following a military raid on a religious school that killed 80 people, a diplomat said.
- AP
- Published: 00:00 November 1, 2006
Islamabad: Britain's Prince Charles, touring Pakistan to promote interfaith dialogue, hastily organised new travel plans yesterday following a military raid on a religious school that killed 80 people, a diplomat said.
Charles and his wife Camilla cancelled plans to visit the northwestern city of Peshawar, where hundreds of protesters yesterday burned a US flag and denounced Pakistan's government for Monday's attack on a seminary in a northern tribal region. Pakistan's military claimed it was a terrorist training camp.
Harmony
Instead, Charles visited the Fatimah Jinnah University in Rawalpindi near Islamabad where the royal couple visited classrooms and was received by jubilant female students and teachers.
In a speech, he called for greater interfaith harmony. "Religion does not teach us to harbour enmity among us. This is why I find it so hard to believe those who assume some inevitable conflict between faiths and civilisations," he said, adding "the temptation is there, it always has been, but there is no obligation to succumb to it."
Also yesterday, the royal couple was to travel to the ancient city of Taxila which has been listed by Unesco as a World Heritage Site.
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