Khurshid was served a show cause notice for allegedly defaming the country after he was found polishing shoes outside places of worship in India.
Khurshid had been accompanying a 200-member delegation visiting India in March this year. On July 14, the notice was issued by SCBA’s President Yaseem Azad.
Asma Jahangir told The Express Tribune that she did neither condemned nor appreciated the act of polishing shoes outside places of worship, but the she condemned serving Khurshid with a show cause notice by the SCBA.
“This is the Pakistan Bar Council, the supreme body, to issue the notice and not the SCBA,” Jahangir said adding notices should have been issued to those who failed to reach to official functions and meetings in time.
“The notice has been issued in a manner that is bigotry. Why did they (SCBA) not issue notices to those who scuffled over choosing which vehicle to travel in inside India,” Jahangir said, questioning the decision and that some members of the delegation who had fought over which vehicle to travel in that had defamed the country, not Khurshid’s act of polishing shoes outside worship places.
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Hats off to Mr Khurshid Khan !! he has made me a proud pakistani today .. thanks to Ms Asma Jahangir for showing solidarity with Such a Great man ,
@ Syed Hamid Ahmed,
Loved your comment !! I wish whole pakistan was like u !! Hats Off to you
I wounder what these human right activits will say if he would have started polishing the shoes of "Kashmiri's" who are going through extermination by Indian security forces.
Asma Jahangir always get happy on any antipakistan activity and always condem when it is something good for IRP or Muslims. She has been a stool pigeon of india for long.
I agree that Deputy Attorney General Khurshid Khan should be honored, he has heart to feel the pain when an innocent human is killed, exactly like Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him) had said "If you kill one innocent man it is like killing whole mankind". We all are easily sewayed by emotionalism and hatred for all those who don't agree with us, that is exactly we are taught at schools and in Masjids. Sunni hates Shia, Shia Hates Sunni ,,,, and all collectively hate Hindus, Sikhs, Christians and still we are proud to be Muslims. Do we follow religion of Peace or Hate? If it is in my power, I will buy a shoe from a Sikh in Amritsar polished by Khurshid Khan DAG and keep it as a souvenir of Great Islamic Tolerance. To all those hate mongers, I am a Muslim, I am a Sayyed and I don't need a certificate of being good Muslim from you, period. It is between me and my Allah.
I don't understand the reason for all this excitement. Isn't prerogative of an individual to with himself what he likes as long as his actions do not fall withing the category called crime.
@Nasir Mahmood, @ashar, So you both feel that a person should be penalized for his personal decision which simply showed an attitude of humility, service and respect for people of other faiths?
They should have served him with medal of honour then our learned madam would be appreciating the SCBA.