Maulan­a Aziz also calls upon govt to snap ties with US over Trump’s Jerusa­lem moveISLAMABAD: Former Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz has called for action against a “social media campaign to insult some of the holy figures of Islam”. Speaking at a news conference at a seminary in Islamabad, the cleric showed to media persons the screenshots of several controversial and outrageous social media posts. The cleric also demanded that the government snap diplomatic relations with the United States after President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “Several people associated with Lal Masjid and [adjacent seminary] Jamia Hafsa have ‘disappeared’,” he said. Maulana Aziz also criticised what he called vulgar content in the mainstream and social media and sought strict monitoring and guidelines for the media.

Source: The Express Tribune December 09, 2017 14:47 UTC