1. AHMED SAEED AWAN, J.- This writ petition was filed on 8.8.1993 on the apprehension that as the Chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain falls on 20th Safar on or around 9.8.1993, Faqir Mohammad Nawaz in collusion with the local administration may adopt the old technique of harassing the petitioner and other Shias by getting the police guards posted to ensure that neither any Majlis or Marsia Khani is held nor religious rites are performed in the Imam Bargah and to confine the holding of Majalis in one room house.
2. Two years have gone by and the-holy months of Moharram ul Haram (1993-94) have passed peacefully. No useful purpose will, therefore, fee served by keeping this petition pending any further.
2. Even otherwise the petition is premature as it is filed on the basis of apprehensions. It may be.
3. Observed that by virtue of Article 2-A the objective Resolutions for substantial part of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It is clearly provided in the Objective Resolutions that the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice as enunciated by Islam shall be fully observed and that the citizens shall be guaranteed fundamental rights, including equality of status, of opportunity and before law, social, economic and political justiceand freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship and association, subject to law and public morality.
4. Similarly, Article 31 of the Constitution reads as under:- "steps shall be taken to enable the Muslims of Pakistan, individually and collectively, to order their lives in accordance with the fundamental principles and basic concepts of Islam and to provide facilities whereby they may be enabled to understand the meaning of life according to the Holy Quran and Sunnah and Sunnah."
5. This being so, it is the duty of the State to ensure that law and order situation is maintained while allowing different sects of Muslim to profess their religious rites freely and without any obstruction.
6. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of with the above observation being premature.