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Blasphemous Materials: IHC Directs To Expose Perpetrators

Islamabad (October 27, 2017): A committee constituted to look into blasphemous materials on social media presented its report in Islamabad High Court (IHC).

The committee headed by Special Secretary Interior submitted its report to IHC during the hearing of a petition seeking government to block blasphemous and hate materials on social media.

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Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui heard the petition.

During the course of hearing, the court directed Interior Ministry to unveil the faces spreading blasphemous and sacrilegious materials on social media.The judge remarked that if the intelligence agencies failed to perform on such a sensitive issue of blasphemy then these were not worthy of anything.

The court directed the ministry to expose those involved in blasphemy whether individual or organisation. The judge remarked that the state was still silent over the issue of blasphemy.

The court observed that the bureaucracy had apparently failed to tackle such a sensitive issue which sometimes resulted in the murder of alleged blasphemers.In a previous hearing, the judge, who was one of the authors of the verdict which upheld the conviction of Mumtaz Qadri, the murderer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, had remarked that if the government machinery did not stop blasphemous content from reaching citizens, people like Mumtaz Qadri would continue to take the law into their own hands.

The Judge had said that if govt did not restrict such content, more Mumtaz Qadris would take the law into their own hands

Further hearing of the petition seeking the blockade of blasphemous contents and hate material on the social media was adjourned.

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