Pakistan has seen murders of their beloved leaders, but the assassination of the governor of Punjab is a new dimension in the old series of killings, i.e. so called religious extremism. Now it is not suitable to say something about his political views. However, his views about blasphemy law, the main reason of his killing, will be discussed for a long time.

His main concern was about the blasphemy law’s use against innocents and not about the law itself as I have understood. This is certainly debatable, but what caused the problem was calling it a “black law” (Naudobillah). This is not the way, appropriate for any common man albeit the constitutional head of a province. For example we have nineteen amendments in our constitution, it means that there are some problems in the constitution and we have to solve those by amending it. But this doesn’t justify calling constitution as “Black Constitution”.

Secondly, he said that convict’s appeal for mercy will be forwarded to the president. This is again not appropriate, as convict was only found guilty at a lower court and her appeal according to the normal procedure will be sent to president after the highest court also ratified the lower court’s decision. The urgency on the part of governor had certainly created apprehensions in the minds of the religious people that he wanted her acquittal at any cost, irrespective of her being guilty or not.

Thirdly, irrespective of the above, main point being that “HE DID NOT COMMIT BLASPHEMY”. There is no justification for killing a person who didn’t commit that crime. So his killing is unjustifiable. However, at the same time one at a responsible seat must consider the sensitivity of the matter. Because, it is not like changing a clause of the Companies Act.