Hindu Deity, Maryam Nawaz and Aamir Liaquat

Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf MNA and famous TV presenter Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain has sparked another controversy after he posted a picture of a Hindu deity while being sarcastic towards PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz Sharif. Following the event on Twitter a large number of the people strongly condemned the act of Dr Amir.

The PTI’s MNA from Tharparkar, Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, who is also chief of Pakistan Hindu Council on Wednesday reacted in a scathing way toward the disrespect of the Hindu goddess. Dr Vankwani in his tweet threatened Dr Liaqat and gave an ultimatum to remove the tweet or else they will stage protests against the blasphemy. “Aamir’s terrible step has caused anxiety among the Hindu community’ he added. Another PTI’s MNA from Umerkot, Mr Lal Malhi went a step further and tweeted ” Strongly condemn the blasphemous act of Dr Liaqat and appeal to take strong notice of this immoral act and no reliion including Islam permits him ( Dr Amir) to do such illolgical acts” he said. “

This act exposes the Doosra Roop of Amir Liaqat” Malhi added. The known activist Kapil Dev taking to Twitter lambasted Dr Liaqat and requested Prime Minister Imran to take strong notice of such an act by a lawmaker of the party. He said that Dr Amir used a Hindu deity for the political scoring. ” Hindus are abused and their religious sentiments are hurt even by those sitting in the parliaments, ‘ he added. Pratap Shiviani another Thari activist and educationalist from Tharparkar came down hard on PTI MNA for his tweet and requested Prime Minister Imran Khan to take stringent actions against those, who were promoting such mentality towards Hindus and other religious minorities for the political goals.

Mr Shushil Malani, the PPP leader from Tharparkar, termed the tweet by Dr Amir, a common mindset of the leadership of the party towards Hindus and other religious minorities and asked him to mend his ways.

“You do know that not only you’ve made a fool out of yourself but have surely hurt the sentiments of many Hindus too. Shame on you. You’re the absolute filth of karachi” Abdul Wahid Halepoto tweeted.

A large number of the prominent figures, celebrities, journalists and writers took to Twitter and heaped the scorn on PTI’s MNA from Karachi for his tweet.