Court rejects plea seeking FIR

A local court rejected on Friday a plea seeking the registration of a case against actor Saba Qamar and singer Bilal Saeed, stating that a case has already been registered in Lahore. The petitioner, Liaquat Gabol, claimed that Qamar and Saeed hurt the sentiments of the Muslim community by filming their music video in a mosque. He contended that the artists had ‘violated the mosque’s honour.’ The court observed that a case in this regard is already registered in Lahore, and as the mosque in question is also located in Lahore, there was no point of registering another case in Karachi.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 5^th, 2020.