Interior Minister Urges Protesters To Call Off Sit-in, Obey Law

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal Friday urged the representatives of a religious group, protesting at Faizabad interchange to call off their sit-in and obey law of the land in larger interest of the country

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Nov, 2017 ) :Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal Friday urged the representatives of a religious group, protesting at Faizabad interchange to call off their sit-in and obey law of the land in larger interest of the country.

Addressing a press conference here, he again invited them for talks to remove their reservations about the finality of the Prophet-hood law, if any. The minister said the government wanted to end the sit-in peacefully through dialogue.

We request them to end the protest as they have got registered their protest. The parliament has already made finality of Prophet-hood law foolproof and there is no ambiguity and shortcoming in it, he said.

He said now there was no justification to continue the sit-in, which was causing great inconvenience and hardship to people including patients, students, employees of the twin cities.

He categorically said firm belief in Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) as the last Messenger of Allah Almighty, was the fundamental part of Islamic faith, which was also an integral part of the Constitution.

He said the matter had already been settled once for all and it should not be politicized, keeping in view of its sensitivity as the error in the Electoral Reforms Bill-2017 had been undone. He said creating doubts about the finality of Prophet-hood law, any propaganda on social media or religious hatred were not in Pakistan's interests and it should be avoided keeping in-view the prevailing situation.

Anti-Pakistan lobby is using pictures of sit-in against us and it earns bad name to the country at international level, he said, adding that it was need of the hour to forge unity and foil anti-Pakistan conspiracies.