PUC demands: Ulema ask CJP to take notice of principal’s murder

Lahore: The leadership of Pakistan Ulema Council has demanded of the chief justice of Pakistan to take suo motu of the murder of a private college principal in Shabqadar.

A joint statement issued by Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) underlined that Islamic Shariah did not allow anyone to kill any innocent person on the status accusations. The PUC leaders stated that if anyone had committed blasphemy, even then court had the mandate to punish him/her. Self-interpretation of Islamic teachings is maligning the Muslims and Islam," they added. They asserted the murder of a private college principal in Shabqadar by a student of the college on blasphemy allegations was alarming as blasphemy law was prevalent in the country and no one individually or at the organisational level could be allowed to kill anyone in accordance of self-interpreted explanation of Islamic Shariah.

The murder of the principal on blasphemy allegations is very unfortunate, they said. If the college principal had uttered any derogatory remarks intentionally or unintentionally, the people should have moved court instead of taking the law in their own hands, the PUC leaders said.

The PUC leaders, Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, Allama Abdul Haq Mujahid, Maulana Ayub Safdar, Abdul Kareem Nadeem, Abdul Hameed Watto, Maulana Matiullah Saeedi, Maulana Shafi Qasmi, Maulana Tahir Aqeel, Maulana Ashfaq Patafi, Maulana Saad Zikriya and Maulana Shafi Qasmi demanded the CJP take suo motu of the murder of the college principal.

Meanwhile, the PUC leaders appreciated the arrest of Zainab's killer and demanded the CJP ensure speedy justice in the case.