Muslim campaigner loses High Court fight over grave edging
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LONDON: A Barelvi British Pakistani Muslim who claimed his human rights have been breached because he cannot install a raised marble edge around his father`s grave lost a High Court battle on Tuesday. Atta Ul-Haq, a practising Barelvi Muslim, wants to erect 10 cm edging to stop people walking across Hafiz Qadri`s grave in Streetly Cemetery in Walsall, West Midlands. He maintained in his court claim that Islamic law forbids people from stepping on graves and claimed that council rules relating to cemeteries breached his human right to exercise religion. He said the right was enshrined in Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights and therefore the court should rule in his favour and...