London, Sept. 25 (ANI): British lawmakers have called for ban on the visit of Pakistan's Railway Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour to the United Kingdom, after he offered to pay 100,000 dollars to anyone who killed the maker of an anti-Islam film that has caused furore across the Muslim world.
Bilour is a regular visitor to London, where he and his brothers spend large parts of the year in family properties, reports The News.
According to Conservative MPs, Bilour should be prevented from coming to Britain because his presence would not be "conducive to the public good".
"Ministers should be looking at this. We don't want extremists like that coming into the country," said one MP.
Another said: "We just can't have people who incite violence in this way in Britain."
Bilour's invitation to Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants - amounting to incitement to murder - was made the day after 21 were people were killed and 200 injured in violent protests throughout Pakistan.
"I announce today that this blasphemer who has disrespected the Holy Prophet, if somebody will kill him, I will give that person a prize of $100,000. I also announce that if the government hands this person over to me, my heart says I will finish him with my own hands and then they can hang me" Bilour had said.
"I alone will bear the consequences of the blasphemer's killing including any prosecution by authorities overseas. It would be a matter between them and I," he had further said.
His offer to reward the killing of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the Egyptian Coptic Christian who made the anti-Islamic film 'The Innocence of Muslims', was his alone and did not reflect on his party or the government, he said.
Bilour , 73, and his three younger brothers, Bashir, Ilyas and Aziz, own several flour mills, four cinemas and properties in Pakistan, Dubai and London, the paper said.
Pakistan's premier Raja Pervez Ashraf and the Awami National Party, of which he is a member, have dissociated themselves from him after he announced the bounty. (ANI)
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