"Rashid Rehman who was dealing a blasphemy case of a professor in Multan was threatened by some goons belonging with a religious party in the court room and in the presence of a judge, but no action was taken he the lawyer was murdered in his office."
Source/Credit: Daily Times
By Press Release | October 15, 2015
Karachi: In 2014 only, 1400 cases of blasphemy were registered in Pakistan out of which 800 were registered against Muslims, says a senior lawyer Syed Mumtaz Shah, speaking a seminar "Human Rights, Religious freedom, Social Inclusion & Political Participation of Minority" at a local hotel the other day.The seminar was organized by Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) and other speakers included Chairman of Sindh Human Rights Commission Justice (R) Majida Rizvi, an expert in constitutional history of Pakistan Ms. Maliha Zia Lari, Mr. Mahesh Kumar Malani , MPA (PPP) and Nisar Shar an office bearer of Karachi Bar Association. Mr. Mumtaz Shah said it has become dangerous even for lawyers to fight the case of an accused in Blasphemy law. "Rashid Rehman who was dealing a blasphemy case of a professor in Multan was threatened by some goons belonging with a religious party in the court room and in the presence of a judge, but no action was taken he the lawyer was murdered in his office. "Nothing has happened to bring the main culprits to the justice," he added.
Giving another example he mentioned that a case was filed against 60 lawyers who were protesting against the local SHO of police Umar Daraz. The police officer accused in the FIR that the protesting lawyers were chanting slogans against Hazrat Umar. Justice (Retd.) Majid Razvi said poverty and illiteracy are the basic problems in Pakistani society, which have strengthened the intolerance and militancy in the society. "If we analyze our school syllabus we would find that gradually hatred is incorporated," she added.The morality should be taught at home for promotion of peaceful co-existence" she mentioned in her personal experiences and said she attending a wedding of her friend's daughter on her insistence she signed on Nikah Nama as a witness. When the form went to the Nikah Kuwah Mullah he said this name is of a woman so in Islamic terms there should be at least two women. "I told him that I am a lawyer by profession and under the law I can do it." But he kept insisting to have two women to make the Nikkah right, otherwise it was wrong in Islamic terms. She appreciated the previous government for expulsion of the Hudood Ordinance and introducing the Women Protection Act.
Ms. Maleeha Zia spoke about Constitutional provisions. She said in the preamble to the Constitution of 1973, certain paragraphs of the Objectives Resolution of 1949 are changed. The word 'freely' has been deliberately omitted from the sentence which states that all minority members are "free" to practice their religion.
She said during Zia's era Hudood and Zina Ordinances were enforced and hundreds of incent women were sent to jails due to these discriminatory laws. Interestingly the law was brought from the Islamic teachings but it also applied to non-Muslims. Though these ordinances were expelled in 2007, these are still widely in practice, she said Mr. Mahesh Kumar Malani , PPP MPA said the time is right to profess for the human rights. We should not be segregating ourselves into the Muslims and non-Muslims when it come to the rights as both feel injustice as more than 50% of the blasphemy accused are Muslims." Mr. Amrit Kumar from Dastageer Center; which provides free legal aid to the minorities, women and PWDs introduced their programme and its outreach.
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