LAHORE – Police in Punjab on Saturday registered a case against PML-N MNAMian Javed Latif, for maligning state institutions on a complaint filed bya citizen.
Jameel Saleem, a resident of Lahore, has filed the case against the MNA atthe Township Police station.
Saleem claimed that Latif ‘sowed seeds of hate’ among PPP and PML-N workersand insulted Pakistan’s national security, government and stateinstitutions.
The complainant further said that the MNA hurt the sentiments of the peopleto cause chaos in the country.
The FIR states that by making such a statement the PML-N leader violatedthe law. He has included Sections 120, 120-B, 153, 153-A, 500 and 500 1–Bin the FIR.
The FIR comes amid demands by various government officials to lodge a caseagainst the MNA over his *‘Pakistan Khappay’* remarks, that has hurtPakistanis.
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The complainant, however, is not a government employee not has anyrelations with the government but is only a citizen of Pakistan.
Latif had hurt Pakistanis in a TV show by saying is anything happened toPML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz, the PML-N will not say *’PakistanKhappay’*.
Special Assistant to Prime Minister of Pakistan on Political CommunicationDr Shahbaz Gill, and SAPM to the Punjab Chief Minister on Information DrFirdous Ashiq Awan, condemned the PML-N leaders statement saying it hasbecome evident the only thing dear to PMLN was money and it is the heightof madness and shamelessness.
