Tourism minister issued fatwa after hug
A Taliban-style Islamic court in the Pakistani capital has issued a fatwa against a female minister for posing in an "obscene manner" with French paraglider pilots, a top cleric said today.
The government had no immediate comment on the fatwa, or Islamic religious decree, issued against tourism minister Nilofar Bakhtiar by the fundamentalist Red Mosque in Islamabad.
The move comes days after the top cleric at the mosque announced the creation of the Sharia or Islamic court and threatened a wave of suicide bombings if the authorities try to shut it down.
"The muftis (judges) issued a decree against tourism minister Nilofar Bakhtiar when their attention was drawn towards some pictures in which she appeared in an obscene and objectionable manner with paraglider pilots in Paris," the mosque's deputy leader deputy Abdul Rashid Ghazi told AFP.
"They have called on the government to punish and sack her from the cabinet."
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