Drive launched to secure sacred scripts

To educate people about not using outdated newspapers carrying religious content for packing of fruits and vegetables

ISLAMABAD:

An awareness drive was launched in the fruits and vegetable markets of the federal capital to control the misuse of sacred papers on Monday.

Educating people about not using outdated newspapers carrying religious content for the packing of fruits and vegetables, All Pakistan Muqadas Auraq Union President Sheraz Ahmed Farooqui apprised the public that the district administration had imposed Section 144 to curb the desecration of the holy scripts.

In the light of section 144, he said the commercial use of sacred scripts published in newspapers, advertisements and other means of communication was totally banned. He said the people allegedly involved in this un-Islamic practice would be tried under the Penal Code of Pakistan's Section 295-B and could be awarded life imprisonment.

Farooqui expressed satisfaction over the packing of fruits and vegetables being imported from Peshawar because the brokers of that area were using plain papers instead of old newspapers.

He lamented over the packing of fruits and vegetables coming from Sindh as the brokers were using newspapers which were mostly containing Quranic verses.

He said a plan, in consonance with Islamabad Capital Territory Administration, had been devised to a crackdown in the fruits and vegetable markets for addressing this social and religious issue in a couple of days.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 5^th, 2022.