ISLAMABAD– Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry expressed concern over rising incidences of Islamophobic attacks in the West, on Wednesday.
“A few weeks ago, a Pakistani family was martyred in a racist attack in Canada,” the information minister said on Twitter. “Now again in the city of Saskatoon another citizen – Kashif – was attacked by extremists with daggers.”
Fawad hoped that effective measures would be taken to curb Islamophobic attacks in the West. In a separate tweet, the information minister, citing two court judgments, urged for judicial reforms to be introduced in the country.
According to Fawad, the country would be unable to emerge from the economic crisis without the reforms.
“Confused, since yesterday, after reading the decisions to ban TikTok and remove the National Bank of Pakistan’s president, as to what our courts are doing?” the minister said.
He added that Pakistan was already suffering losses of billions of dollars at the hands of such “judicial activism”.
Two days earlier, the Sindh High Court (SHC) banned the popular video-sharing platform TikTok in the country over “immoral content” and for celebrating “LGBTQ-Pride Month”.
The latest ban, the third within the last two years, will be applicable till at least July 8, which is the next date of hearing. An SHC bench issued this order while hearing a “suit of declaration and injunctions” in which the petitioner had nominated the federal government, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), and TikTok as respondents.
Earlier on March 11, the Peshawar High Court (PHC) had also ordered the PTA to ban TikTok over “immoral content”. The PHC, however, lifted the ban on April 1 after the PTA told the court that it had raised the issue again with the TikTok administration.
SOURCE: THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE
