Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the PML president, on Friday said that it had been decided to restore the religion column in the new passports. "The decision has already been made to restore the religion column. There may be some delay due to technical reasons," he told the journalists after a Christmas Eve party at the PML Secretariat.
| "We need religion in everything, especially in our passports! What if we're traveling and we forget what religion we are? Hah? Hah? Riddle me that!" |
Ijazul Haq, the religious affairs minister, endorsed the PML president's views saying the religion column would soon be restored in the Machine Readable Passports. To a question, the PML president, rejected that the matter was only raised by the MMA. "This issue concerns all the Muslim, not the MMA alone," he added.
| "I mean, any Moose limb can forget what religion he is! We need that reminder!" |
In his speech at the occasion, he called for a dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews for establishing peace and harmony in the world. He said he had made similar suggestions while recently addressing the students of George Washington University. |