Publication of “half-naked” photographs of Hazrat Adam and Amma Hawwa, considered the first creations of the god, by a Pakistani magazine has attracted the ire of a section of the clergy who has demanded death to its owners and publishers.

A fatwa was issued against the publication by Maulana Abdul Aziz of the Lal Masjid here who has in the recent past hit headlines for the capture of a girls’ seminary run in his complex for several weeks and an edict against the country's Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar.

Blasphemy

Aziz alleged in his Friday sermon said the owners and publishers of the monthly magazine Octane had committed blasphemy of the first prophet of Allah Almighty - Hazrat Adam and Amma Hawwa - by publishing their half naked images in its latest issue. The edict was latest in a series of measures from a section of the clergy against liberal mores.

Bakhtiar case

Earlier, Bakhtiar was forced to resign after clerics raised hue and cry over a photograph showing her allegedly hugging her male coach at the end of a para-jump in France that she carried out for collecting funds for the victims of the October 2005 earthquake.