{"id":74975,"date":"2018-08-08T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74975"},"modified":"2018-08-08T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:41:00","slug":"amir-liaquat-fails-to-appear-before-sc-in-hate-speech-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=74975","title":{"rendered":"Amir Liaquat fails to appear before SC in hate-speech case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad, August 8 (TNS): Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday resumed hearing of the hate speech case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politician and televangelist Amir Liaquat in which he failed to appear.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar told Liaquat\u2019s Counsel,\u201c Your client should have been here, I am sure you are aware that we can issue red warrants for him if he fails to show up\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reply Amir Liaquat\u2019s counsel said, \u201cWe want one more day from the court to prepare for the case\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this the top judge remarked \u201cwe are here till 1.00 pm, he has time to appear before the court\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Media Group told the court during the hearing that Amir Liaquat made derogatory remarks and made speeches pertaining to violence on January 2 and January 24 last year against petitioners Mir Shakil Ur Rehman, Najam Sethi and Shahzeb Khanzada and accused them of blasphemy in his BOL program \u201cAise Nahi Chalega\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this the chief justice said that court will monitor all clips of his programs however, Amir Liaquat was slapped a fine of 20,000 which will go as donation to the Diamer Bhasha Dam fund.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing was adjourned till Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Islamabad, August 8 (TNS): Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday resumed hearing of the hate speech case against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf politician and televangelist Amir Liaquat in which he failed to appear. During the hearing, Chief Justice Saqib Nisar told Liaquat\u2019s Counsel,\u201c Your client should have been here, I am sure you are aware that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975","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=74975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74977,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74975\/revisions\/74977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}