LAHORE:
The Lahore High Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing of a petition seeking a ban on the social networking website Facebook in Pakistan till Thursday (today). The petition accuses the website of holding a competition of sacrilegious caricatures of the Holy Prophet (pbuh).
The court adjourned the hearing as the deputy attorney general could not come to the court.
Petitioner Muhammad & Ahmed, a public interest litigation company through its chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique, submitted that the website was going to hold an objectionable and blasphemous contest “2nd Annual Draw Muhammad Day-May 20, 2011.”
The petitioner submitted that due to holding of the competition, SHO Civil Lines police station be directed to register a criminal case under Section 295-C and other relevant provisions of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against the perpetrators.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 19th, 2011.
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