MITHI: The Pakistan Hindu Council (PHC) has called for stopping issuance of licences for liquor shops immediately.

PHC patron-in-chief and a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani has said that like Islam, Hinduism also prohibited its followers from consuming liquor.

Dr Kumar was speaking at a ceremony held in Islamkot late on Friday evening to distribute financial assistance cheques and sewing mach­ines among the destitute and needy people of the area.

His views were endorsed by PHC chairman Chelaram Kewalani, who also spoke at the ceremony.

They slammed certain public representatives belonging to the religious minorities who, according to them, were busy seeking liquor shop licences only for their own financial gain. They said the PHC and public representatives were supposed to help eradicate social evils and work for the welfare of humanity and not promote such evils through liquor and other such businesses.

Published in Dawn, June 15th, 2014