Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Interfaith Harmony and MiddleEast Maulana Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Wednesday said nobody would beallowed to misuse of blasphemy law in the country.
Reacting on former Human Rights Minister Dr Shireen Mazari’s letter aboutmisuse of blasphemy law, written to the United Nations special rapporteurs,he, in a video message, categorically stated that the misuse of blasphemylaw would not be permitted on the basis of personal and political grudgesagainst anyone at all costs.
He said he had already assured about it in his earlier media talk afterdiscussing the issue in detail with Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif,Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar and Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah.
Tahir Ashrafi who is also the chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council proposedher to raise the issue, if any, at the national forums like court of law,Muttahida Ulema Board (MUB) and Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) keepingin view the sensitivity of the subject as an international drive againstthe blasphemy law was already in progress.
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He said blasphemy cases lodged by the people against her leadership wouldbe decided in the light of Quran and Sunnah and the Constitution when theywould come to MUB and CII through courts.
