The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that a case be filed under section 295C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) against the cartoonist, foreign newspapers, publishers and local government officials, including the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority chairman, on the issue of blasphemous cartoons. “The police should register the petitioner’s case under section 295C of the PPC in the jurisdiction where the petitioner resides,” said the chief justice while ruling on a petition moved by Maulvi Iqbal Haider, the Awami Himayat Tehreek chairman. Section 295C prescribes the death sentence for offenders. Haider had moved the SC for the registration of a criminal case against the people responsible for printing and propagating cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (The chief justice said, “It is our religious duty to express sentiments against the blasphemous publication.” A case should be registered against the people responsible at the very least to dissuade anyone blaspheming in the future, he added. Besides blaming foreign authorities, the petitioner also accused the PTA of criminal negligence for not blocking websites showing the blasphemous cartoons in Pakistan. Iqbal Haider lives in Karachi and as such a first information report would be lodged with Karachi police. Ibrahim Satti represented him in court.