Pakistani Govt Asked to Ensure Flawless Printing of Quran

- THE Lahore High Court on Tuesday ordered the government to strictly adhere to comply with the Constitution for protection, propagation and enforcement of Islamic ideology, including correct and exact printing and publishing of the Holy Quran.

Justice Sheikh Ahmad Farooq also directed the government to enforce and implement the provisions of the Punjab Holy Quran (Printing and Recording) Act, 2011 by framing rules and adhere to the grammage of the paper for the printing and recording of the Holy Quran in line with parameters laid down under the rules framed under the Holy Quran Act, 1973. The court also directed the government for prescribing procedure in retrieving, collecting and preserving the damaged or dilapidated papers of the Holly Quran.
The court passed order through a judgment on the preservation of the Holy Quran in the case of Muhammad Nazimuddin, member of the Punjab Quran Board, who had sought its directions against the Auqaf secretary and the Ministry of Religious Affairs, functioning under the Publication of Holy Quran (Elimination of Printing and Recording Errors) Act, 1973.
The petitioner submitted that the respondents were not strictly following the provisions of the Quran Act by not printing the copy of the Holy Quran on Quran Paper of 54 grammage and also not properly preserving Quranic sheets by means of their collection followed by their recycling, preventing them from being dumped into the rivers and canals.
The counsel for the petitioner Mian Sikander Hayat argued that it was the duty of the respondents to ensure proper printing the Holy Quran on 54 grammage, named as Quran paper just a Bible Paper but the respondents, both the federal and the provincial government departments, never implemented the act, thus the grammage of the Quran Paper decreased day by day from 52 to 45, 40 and then 35, equivalent to the paper of an ordinary newspaper.
Source: The News