JEDDAH: Pakistan Transport Minister Dr. Abdulkarim Bakhsh thanked the Kingdom’s leadership for its interest in Muslim affairs and services to Islamic issues at the opening of the 24th session of the International Conference of the Central People of Hadith Association at Lahore.The minister expressed gratitude to King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for their support.“We thank the leadership of the Kingdom and its people for their absolute support for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, its solidarity with Pakistan in pursuit of a just resolution for the Kashmiri conflict ... in addition to the Kingdom’s generous humanitarian initiative after the devastating earthquake which hit Pakistan in 2005.”He said the association valued Saudi Arabia’s role in expanding the Two Holy Mosques and other Hajj ritual sites facilities in the service of the pilgrims visiting the Grand Mosque in Makkah.The minister said that the mission of the conference was to call Muslims to unite to reject extremism and violence, and convey the truthful face of Islam by highlighting the generosity and tolerance in the teachings of the Islamic faith.He said that the association denounced the rocket attacks and hostile campaigns to which some regions of the Kingdom were subjected by Houthi militias, who did not respect international humanitarian norms.The conference’s inaugural session was attended by Dr. Saleh Al-Taleb, imam of the Grand Mosque, Nawaf Al-Maliki, ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Pakistan, as well as scholars, muftis and mosque preachers.