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Strategy being made to curb violent protests, hate speech: minister
[DAWN] Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said the government is preparing a strategy to tackle violent protests and hate speech on sensitive religious issues "without flexing state muscles"."The interior ministry has been given a task to devise a comprehensive strategy to ensure that no violent protests take place on roads and common people’s lives and properties are protected," he told a news conference at PID office here on Monday. Lauding opposition parties’ maturity in the wake of violent protests across the country following Aasia Bibi’s acquittal in a blasphemy case, Mr Chaudhry said the growing problem of violent protests on sensitive religious issues would be tackled as a part of national security in consultation with the opposition parties. He said the federal and provincial governments were busy identifying miscreants who damaged public and private properties and injured people during the three-day countrywide protest last week. Regretting that the miscreants under the garb of religion burnt private vehicles and even humiliated women, he said: "All provincial governments are required to compensate the damages caused to common people’s properties and physical injuries." The Centre would also extend assistance to the provincial governments, he added. Posted by: Fred 2018-11-06 |
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