Resolving Controversy Surrounding Rana Asif Mehmood's Religion
The dangerous confusion surrounding the religious status of treasury member Rana Asif Mehmood in the Punjab Assembly was resolved on Friday after he vehemently stated he was a born Christian, requesting the opposition parties and the media not to indulge in the dangerous propaganda against him which might cost him his life, just like Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti. The PPP-led opposition parties which had been instrumental in making his religious status controversial over the last few days accepted his clarification but speaker Rana Iqbal Khan summoned the leader of the opposition Raja Riaz, law minister Rana Sanaullah, Rana Asif Mehmood, and the mover of the adjournment motion against him PML-Q’s Samina Khawar Hayat, in his chambers to decide the issue so that it might not come up on the floor of the House again.
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