Concern on UN demand

LAHORE: Tanzeem-e-Islami (TI) Ameer Hafiz Aakif Saeed has expressed concern over Pakistan’s "positive response" to a UN demand of making ‘consensual sex a non-cognizable offence’ in the country, warning that Islamabad must resist UN demands of making the country "sex-free society" and protect and uphold the Islamic values according to the constitutional duty of the government.

Delivering Friday sermon at Quran Academy, Hafiz Akif Saeed, referring to media reports, said that in response to the UN demand of making mutually consensual sex out of wedlock not a criminal offense, Pakistan had responded by penning “officially noted”, thus indicating that the government would take measures to implement it. Haifz Akif recalled that the UN had been making this demand for quite some time, and during the PPP government in 2008, the government had strictly rejected it. He alleged now the PML-N government which claimed to be the party that founded the country had violated the edicts of Islam by "accepting" the sinister and un-Islamic recommendations.

About a drunkard US diplomat killing a young man under his car, Akif Saeed questioned whether the diplomatic immunity was a licence to kill. He recalled that during the Musharraf regime, the ex-military dictator had not only deprived the then Ambassador of Afghanistan Mullah Zaeef of his diplomatic impunity but also extradited him to Guantanamo Bay, breaching all diplomatic norms. On the sit-in by Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah, he said, "Despite our disagreement it is necessary the promises and agreements regarding upholding the belief of Khatm-e-Nabuwwat made with anyone must be honoured."