The international Ulema conference on suicide bombings that was supposed to  take place in Kabul in late January has been postponed,  Pakistan's Express Tribune reported yesterday. Omer Daudzai, the  Afghan ambassador to Pakistan, told the Express Tribune that neither  Afghanistan nor Pakistan was prepared for the event.

According to Daudzai, the conference will now take place in February. No new  date has been chosen, however, and other details, such as the agenda, also  remain vague. In all likelihood, the conference will not take place at any time  in the near future.

The conference of Islamic scholars was originally proposed to Islamabad in  November 2012 by Salahuddin Rabbani, the chairman of Afghanistan's High Peace  Council, and was  to specifically address the issue of suicide bombings and reiterate the  finding that they are un-Islamic and not permitted by the Koran.