ISLAMABAD: Youm-e-Haya (Chastity Day) would be observed across the country on upcoming Friday to educate men and women about their socio-religious obligations towards each other, Special Representative to the Prime Minister Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said Wednesday.

Addressing a news conference, he said in Friday sermons the prayer leaders would educate people about the consequences of harassment and other inappropriate acts in the light of the teachings of Islamic Sharia.

He called for speedy trial and punishment in public of those who indulged in heinous crimes and immoral activities. Obscenity and nudity were completely prohibited in Islam.

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Ashrafi stressed the need of taking immediate steps to eradicate obscenity and nudity, besides awarding exemplary punishments to keep check on heinous crimes.

Referring to recent incidents of child abuse in a seminary of Rawalpindi, he said, whether a crime was committed in a seminary or mosque, in a college or university and any other place, it was a crime and the culprit must be punished and taken to the task.

He urged working journalists to come forward and support government in curbing fake news, which could severely damage a person’s reputation and integrity.