MANSEHRA: Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Mohammad Yousuf has said the federal government is not revising the blasphemy law.
“I want to make it clear that our PML-N led federal government is not going to amend or repeal blasphemy law. The law will remain as it is and that those blaspheming against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) will face the gallows,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
The minister said the prime minister and his cabinet members were not opposed to the blasphemy laws.
Yousaf who recently returned from Jeddah and Mecca where he met the relevant authorities to finalise Hajj quota for Pakistani pilgrims, said the government had planned to streamline the matters related to Umrah and that parliament would legislate on it soon.
He said the Saudi government had restored the previous Hajj quota for Pakistanis allowing 180,000 local residents to perform Hajj in 2017.
The minister said extraordinary facilities were being offered to Pakistani pilgrims for the last three years and that it would continue doing so.
