Request for Suo Motu action

The Honorable Chief Justice of Pakistan

We, concerned citizens wish to draw your Lordships attention to an
urgent matter of extreme public importance and seek your Lordships
indulgence in exercising Suo Motu jurisdiction to prevent violations
of the most fundamental of personal rights and performance of the
guarantee that "no person shall be deprived of life or liberty save in
accordance with the law" as enshrined in Article 9 of the Constitution
of Pakistan.
Annexed with this petition are newspaper clippings and news items
published in Express Tribune and on the internet disclosing that on
December 3, 2010 Maulana Yousuf Qureshi, Imam of the Mohabbat Khan
Mosque in Peshawar, has announced an award for the murder of Asia
Bibi, a Christian mother of five sentenced to death after being
charged and tried for blasphemy. The announcement and its publication
amount to offences under the Pakistan Penal Code which appear in the
current scenario, where individual notions of what constitutes
blasphemy seem to override the law, and remain, for reasons stated
below, beyond the law enforcement agencies capacity to take
cognizance of such serious offences.
The annexed reports are all prior in time to the assassination of
Salman Taseer, the former Governor of Punjab, who also appears,
subject to the outcome of investigations by the relevant authorities,
to have been a victim of one man, possibly incited by similar
announcements and denunciations, committing a pre-meditated murder and
justifying it on the basis of his belief that the assassinated former
Governor had blasphemed by publicly voicing his opinion on a law.
The ongoing debate concerning the matter of Asia Bibi and the
assassination of the former Governor poses an imminent threat much
bigger in scale compared to many other issues on which your Lordship
has taken suo motu action. Given the religious sensitivities
surrounding the issue at the heart of the matter, this matter can be
reasonably taken up only by the esteemed Supreme Court of Pakistan to
finally and conclusively determine the criminality in inciting murder
in the midst of hysteria around allegations of blasphemy.
The signatories to this Petition have been alarmed by the contents of
the annexed news reports and believe the same to be brazen
declarations of criminal intent and commission of a crime but lack the
means of setting the course of law in motion on account of lack of
personal knowledge and having come to know of the statements through
publications in the media. Even otherwise, we believe that the matters
calls for nothing less than direct intervention by your Lordship given
the inability of the investigating authorities to investigate the
matter without fear of personal security of the investigating
officers.
The signatories to this Petition pray that your Lordship may initiate
proceedings in the matter Suo Motu and protect the country from
misguided individuals founding another criminal institution of
Customary Killing in violation of Article 9 and 10-A of the
Constitution of Pakistan.

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http://tribune.com.pk/story/85412/blasphemy-case-masjid-imam-offers-reward-to-kill-aasia/
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