Islamabad : Pakistan's Deputy Attorney General Khurshid Khan has been given a notice by the country's supreme court's bar association to explain why action should not be taken against him for "defaming" the nation by polishing shoes while performing voluntary service at gurdwaras in India.
The showcause notice was issued to DAG Khan yesterday by Supreme Court Bar Association at the Peshawar High Court. DAG Khan lives and works in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
He has said that he performed voluntary service at gurdwaras, including cleaning shoes, during a recent visit to India as "penance for crimes committed by the Taliban".
"Although it was the government's duty to issue him the show cause notice, as he is a serving Deputy Attorney General, we have issued it instead," Mr Azad said.
He contended Khan could have acted in a "more respectable way".
"Have I been charged for violating an Indian law? There was no code of conduct we were told to follow."
"What is constituted as defaming the country? Ajmal Kasab's alleged killing of Indians or a Pakistani polishing the shoes of Hindus, Sikhs and Christians outside their places of worship?" he said.
His voluntary service at the Jamia Masjid in Chandigarh, Golden Temple in Amritsar and Birla temple in Delhi, included polishing shoes, sweeping floors and washing dishes, had received extensive coverage in the Indian and Pakistani media.
He began going to the gurdwara after Taliban fighters kidnapped and killed some Sikhs in Pakistan's restive tribal belt.
The showcause notice was issued to DAG Khan yesterday by Supreme Court Bar Association at the Peshawar High Court. DAG Khan lives and works in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
He has said that he performed voluntary service at gurdwaras, including cleaning shoes, during a recent visit to India as "penance for crimes committed by the Taliban".
"Although it was the government's duty to issue him the show cause notice, as he is a serving Deputy Attorney General, we have issued it instead," Mr Azad said.
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He contended Khan could have acted in a "more respectable way".
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"Have I been charged for violating an Indian law? There was no code of conduct we were told to follow."
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"What is constituted as defaming the country? Ajmal Kasab's alleged killing of Indians or a Pakistani polishing the shoes of Hindus, Sikhs and Christians outside their places of worship?" he said.
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His voluntary service at the Jamia Masjid in Chandigarh, Golden Temple in Amritsar and Birla temple in Delhi, included polishing shoes, sweeping floors and washing dishes, had received extensive coverage in the Indian and Pakistani media.
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He began going to the gurdwara after Taliban fighters kidnapped and killed some Sikhs in Pakistan's restive tribal belt.
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