Islamabad, Rabi'II 29, 1437, February 08, 2016, SPA -- Pakistan's Senior Ulema Council is set to hold an international conference on terror and extremism and discussions on the challenges facing the Islamic Ummah (nation). Sheikh Taher Mahmoud Al-Ashrafi, President of Pakistan's Senior Ulema Council, said in a press release today that some 5,000 Ulemas, preachers and Imams from inside the country as well as representatives of the Arab, Islamic and European countries will take part in the event. Organizers envisage that the conference would take an unified position to reject terrorism, extremism and sectarianism and discuss the challenges facing the Islamic nation, led by terror in addition to the situations in a number of civil-war-stricken countries including, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Palestine and Kashmir. He said the conference would support decisions issued by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in defense of Islam and Muslims issues and the anti-terror Islamic Military Alliance. --SPA 00:09 LOCAL TIME 21:09 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w