The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) is a Muslim umbrella group and organization in Pakistan whose members include Islamic clerics and legal scholars from a range of Islamic traditions.[1] Maulana Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi is its current chief. The organization was established initially to support a Christian girl who was charged with blasphemy.[1]
Pakistan Ulema Council was established in 1990. The fundamental reason for establishing the PUC was to put an end to the growing sectarian violence and interfaith confrontation in the country, and to spread Islam's true message of peace, love, forbearance, harmony and services to mankind throughout the world. Keeping this objective in mind, the PUC chose the following Quranic commandment as its manifesto: "Co-operate with each other in 'righteousness' and 'piety', not in 'sin' and 'hostility.'"