LAHORE – An additional district and sessions court in Lahore on Thursday dismissed an application requesting the filing of a case against the PML-N’s Muhammad Safdar for his Anti Ahmadi speech.
On Oct 10, the son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the National Assembly, had launched a tirade against the minority community, accusing the faith group of acting against the country’s interests and called for action against its members.
Safdar had also criticised the renaming of Quaid-i-Azam University’s (QAU) physics centre after Professor Dr Abdus Salam — the country’s first Nobel laureate; the grounds for the lawmaker’s objections being the scientist’s Ahmadi faith.
“These people [Ahmadis] are a threat to this country, its Constitution and ideology. This situation is heading towards a dangerous point,” Safdar had said in his diatribe against the community.