TEHRAN -- The Urdu version of “Against Colonization”, a book written by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was unveiled during a ceremony at the International Islamic University of Islamabad (IIUI).

The book, which is the transcript of Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University, was translated into the Urdu language by Muhammad Ali Tirmizi and it is now available for Pakistani readers.
The book’s translator Tirmizi, IIUI President Anwar Hussain Siddiqui and many Iranian and Pakistani officials attended the ceremony.
Iran’s cultural attaché in Islamabad Morteza Saheb-Fosul expressed his thanks to IIUI for holding the ceremony and read a message from Ahmadinejad for the event.
“We hope that some day, Ahmadinejad will make a speech in this university just like his speech at Columbia University, which is now transcribed in this book,” Siddiqui mentioned.
The director of the Cultural Committee of the Iranian Parliament Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel also made speech during the event, expressing his happiness over the publication of the book in Pakistan.
He said that Muslim countries are separated from each other and they should strive to reunite with each other in order to build a better world, he said.
On September 24 2007, President Ahmadinejad appeared as a guest speaker at Columbia University in New York, expecting to be received with a few respectful words from his hosts.
Instead, the obnoxious and completely unacceptable behavior on the part of the Columbia University chancellor gave rise to a tidal wave of criticism and protest both inside and outside Iran.