The organisers of the conference also played a speech of Mulla Mohammad Omar, chief of the Taliban and Amirul Momineen of Afghanistan. Mulla Omar explained the miseries of the Afghan people because of the economic sanctions and the role of the United States in Afghanistan. He criticised the US and termed it a “global terrorist” trying to browbeat Afghanistan. “The US is against Islam. The propaganda against Afghanistan and the Taliban was aimed at degrading Shariat that is fully enforced in the country,” he added.

He said his country would not accept the US-sponsored world order and oppose it as it was against the Ummah. He asked the Muslim countries to free themselves from the yoke of the US and develop their resources for the entire Ummah. In his concluding speech, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman opposed the presence of the United States forces in the Gulf area and urged the Muslim states to end the US monopoly. He supported the Taliban government in Kabul, saying that all evil designs against the Islamic country would be thwarted.
The International Deoband Conference in its concluding session called upon India and Pakistan to find a peaceful solution to the long-standing Kashmir dispute which was fraught with the danger of sparking off a nuclear war in the region. It said that now that both the countries are nuclear, it is the need of the hour that they find a negotiated settlement of the issue that will ensure a lasting and durable peace in the region.

Expressing its concern over the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia, the conference called upon the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to immediately expel the US troops and its allies from the holy land. The conference also expressed its grave concern over the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the atrocities being perpetrated on the armless Palestinians under the patronage of the United States. The conference asked the world in general and the Muslim countries in particular not to pin hopes on the United Nations for the solution of their problems as it was playing the role of a rubber-stamp for the Jews. The conference called for the establishment of a united bloc of Muslim countries to fight out the conspiracies of the anti-Islamic forces and free the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the occupation of Jews.
Through another resolution, the conference condemned the economic sanctions against Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan terming them as naked aggression against the Muslim Ummah. The conference condemned the indifferent attitude of the international community towards Muslims and demanded immediate lifting of economic sanctions against these countries and make amends for the loss they suffered during the sanctions. The conference expressed the hope that the Muslim Ummah would help their Afghan brethren out of the prevailing crisis.

Through yet another resolution the conference criticised the United States for its anti-peace and anti-human rights policies across the globe and urged the international community to take notice of the double-standard of the United States and take concrete steps for the protection of human rights throughout the world. The Conference concluded with a call for formation of an Islamic co-ordination committee (Majlis Tanseeq-ul-Islami) to work for bringing all sects in Islam on one platform and pave the way for enforcement of Islamic system acceptable to all religious groups in the country.

Criticising the United Nations attitude towards the Muslim world, Maulana Fazlur Rehman condemned the one-sided economic sanctions on war-ravaged Afghanistan, saying that 20 years of civil war has destroyed the neighbouring country as more than 1500,000 people have been martyred and every house broken down due to infighting. He said that such a largely attended conference will forward the message of moral support to the oppressed Muslims struggling for their right of self-determination in Kashmir, Palestine, Bosnia and Chechnya.

The participants, estimated to be more than 300,000, were highly charged chanting slogans in favour of Taliban and against the United States. Deoband school’s 134-year old religious and political services were highlighted in the conference organised near Peshawar, where once Ismail Shaheed established his Islamic government in the tribal areas to fight against tyranny and left behind a tradition of martyrdom. A long history of great anti-colonial struggle and orthodox Islamic reaffirmation is being re-visited against the backdrop of the creation of Deoband’s seminary under Mulla Omar in Afghanistan and spread of true Islam in the backward rain-fed regions of Pakistan.