"Out of these, we have shortlisted around 6,000 people which include doctors, nurses, engineers who could be sent to provide humanitarian support and for rebuilding activities there," Shia cleric Kalbe Jawad said.
The cleric claimed that he himself will first lead a six-member team to Iraq on September 29 to assess the situation and chalk out details for sending volunteers from India for humanitarian aid and protection of religious shrines from IS terrorists.
"A six-member delegation of Anjumane-Haideri under my leadership will visit Iraq beginning from September 29. The delegation will hold high-level meetings in Baghdad, Najaf and Karbala to assess the situation. The details of sending a large number of Indian volunteers for protection of the religious shrines will be ironed out there," the cleric said.
Kalbe Jawad added that once the delegation returns, the volunteers will be sent to Iraq.
Responding to a query on whether the volunteers have been given any kind of self-defence training before they leave for Iraq, the authorities of the Shia organisation said that they were in touch with the Indian government officials for sending volunteers to Iraq and all those who have registered with them have given in writing that they will be traveling to the country at their own risk.
The Shia cleric condemned the Islamic State for its brutal ways, saying that the horrific killings of innocent people cannot be justified. "They are in fact maligning the peaceful image of Islam by their inhuman acts," he said.
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