Malik could be removed due to his faults in reciting Surah Ikhlas
ISLAMABAD: During a cabinet meeting earlier this week Interior Minister Rehman Malik recited a passage of Quran in a wrong manner after that a Pakistani lawyer Tariq Asad has approached the Supreme Court seeking his disqualification.
Lawyer requested the court to disqualify the Minister as a member of parliament after TV news channels beamed footage of the minister wrongly reciting “Surah Ikhlas”, a brief passage from the Quran that most Muslims know by heart, at the start of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
In the footage shown on television, Malik wrongly read the prayer three times as his cabinet colleagues laughed at his efforts. Malik contended that the passage had been wrongly printed in a piece of paper given to him by aides. Reports said an inquiry had been ordered into the faux pas.
In his constitutional petition, Asad claimed Malik’s ignorance of the “fundamentals of Islam” showed that he was not qualified to contest elections to parliament. Asad named the federal government, the Chief Election Commissioner, the Senate Chairman and the Prime Minister as respondents in his petition.
(News Editor- Naushin Fatima Khan)
