Move for FIR against MMA leaders

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RAWALPINDI, Aug 23: An application was filed with the Secretariat Police on Wednesday seeking registration of an FIR against four Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNAs and some other members, under the Blasphemy Act, police sources said.

Applicant Muhammad Ishfaq Chaudhry, president of the Pakistan People’s Movement, said the case must be registered against Leader of Opposition Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Liaquat Baloch and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed as they had ‘disgracefully’ torn copies of the Women Bill 2006, during the assembly session, in which the word Quran and Hadith were written repeatedly.

The applicant said the parliamentarians’ act was un-Islamic and a case be registered against them under the Blasphemy Act.

A copy of the handwritten application was sent to the legal branch for expert opinion and another was given to SSP Sikandar Hayat who handed it over to the interior minister, the source said.

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