{"id":36012,"date":"2017-12-10T01:39:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T20:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=36012"},"modified":"2017-12-10T01:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T20:39:28","slug":"govt-to-act-against-online-blasphemy-cut-ties-with-usa-demands-maulana-ab-aziz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=36012","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to act against online blasphemy, cut ties with USA, Demands Maulana Ab.Aziz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Dec 10 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0 Former Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz has severely criticised the Gov\u2019t for being criminally negligent and not taking any action against the elements involved continuously in publishing or uploading blasphemous material against holy figures of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference at a seminary in Islamabad, the cleric showed to media persons the screenshots of several controversial and outrageous social media posts. \u201cAuthorities aren\u2019t doing enough to arrest the culprits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maulana Aziz said that he had also petitioned the Islamabad High Court against the issue but the authorities concerned did nothing. \u201cThe government is helpless. They would have sprung into action if such outrageous caricatures had been made of the prime minister, the army chief or the chief justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The cleric also demanded that the government snap diplomatic relations with the United States after President Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned \u201cextra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances\u201d in the country. \u201cSeveral people associated with Lal Masjid and [adjacent seminary] Jamia Hafsa have \u2018disappeared\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Maulana Aziz also criticised what he called vulgar content in the mainstream and social media and sought strict monitoring and guidelines for the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[After seeing all this on the media] our blood boils and we want to go out and turn this system upside down,\u201d said Aziz, as he addressed the media in a library named after slain al Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Dec 10 (TNS):\u00a0 Former Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz has severely criticised the Gov\u2019t for being criminally negligent and not taking any action against the elements involved continuously in publishing or uploading blasphemous material against holy figures of Islam. Speaking at a news conference at a seminary in Islamabad, the cleric showed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-36012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36014,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36012\/revisions\/36014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}