ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Wednesday directed the interior ministry to crack down on any individual or group involved in posting blasphemous material about the Hindu religion, according to a report by a private media outlet.
A picture of Pakistan Tehreek-i- Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan depicted as a Hindu god has been doing the rounds on social media in what is also believed to be a concerted campaign against the opposition party.
The speaker issued the directives following a protest by Hindu legislators who said that their faith was being smeared in a wave of hate speech online. The issue was raised as a point of order by Ramesh Lal who presented an example of the blasphemous content — a picture of a Hindu deity with the PTI chairman’s face.
Such posts have deeply hurt the religious sentiments of more than four million Hindus living in Pakistan. The MNA said that such offences were covered by cyber laws and should not remain unpunished.
Demanding legal action against the perpetrators for posting blasphemous content, he asked the speaker to order an inquiry into the matter.
If a non-muslim does something like the above about Islam, then immediately crow justice will be there and even the country’s judicial system will come and handover death sentence to blasphers. But if minority religion is blasphemised, no one cares. This is the justice system in pakistan. But pakistan epxects minorities to be respected well by india. SO strange and stupid.
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