LAHORE: Special Representative to Prime Minister on Religious Affairs Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi says that blasphemy laws are not being misused as not a single case has been registered during the last seven months.

He was speaking at a press conference here on Sunday.

He said that incidents of forced conversions and marriages had also been rarely reported during this period. He said if someone had any complaint against misuse of blasphemy laws, he could directly contact the Muttahida Ulema Board to get it reversed.

He said the Muttahida Ulema Board discussed extremism and forced conversion law, adding that not a single FIR regarding blasphemy had been wrongly registered in Pakistan for the last seven months and in Punjab for the last two and a half years.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2021