KARACHI: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists has taken strong exception to Facebook’s caricature competition which has badly hurt sentiments of Muslims all over the globe.

The PFUJ demanded an urgent apology over the blasphemous move and appreciated the blocking of the website on the orders of the Lahore High Court. It regretted that prior to court orders, the concerned regulator, the PTA, kept a mum.

Similarly, it said Pemra remains a silent spectator as certain TV channels indulge in airing of unethical and obscene programme or advertisements.

It said there was a need to abort the nefarious designs of fanatics, and an assurance that in future no such move would be made, either against Muslims, or Christians, or Hindus or any other religion of the world. Freedom of speech doesn’t give anyone a right to play with religious and sacred feelings of others, or to play with the societal norms.
Source: The Nation
Date:5/24/2010