The Senator was speaking on Council of Islamic Ideology report during the meeting. The JUI-F leader he himself had seen Bollywood’s Sushmita Sen reciting Surah Asr with a translation.
He said her video of reciting the Holy Quran verse also went viral on the social media.
He underlined that some leaders in Pakistan couldn’t even recite a Holy Quran verse properly. He made this remark to an indirect reference to former interior minister Rehman Malik who had stumbled reciting the Surah Ikhlas at the start of a meeting.
A gaffe by Rehman Malik
Rehman Malik wrongly recites Surah Ikhlas
His footage made headlines in the mainstream media and the minister was criticized in the social media.