An additional district and sessions court in Lahore on Thursday dismissed an application requesting the filing of a case against the PML-N's Muhammad Safdar for his virulent tirade against Pakistan's persecuted Ahmadi community.

On Oct 10, the son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the National Assembly, had launched a tirade against the minority community, accusing the faith group of acting against the country’s interests and called for action against its members.

Safdar had also criticised the renaming of Quaid-i-Azam University's (QAU) physics centre after Professor Dr Abdus Salam — the country's first Nobel laureate; the grounds for the lawmaker's objections being the scientist's Ahmadi faith.

"These people [Ahmadis] are a threat to this country, its Constitution and ideology. This situation is heading towards a dangerous point," Safdar had said in his diatribe against the community.

The MNA’s outburst against the minority community had drawn widespread criticism from almost all the mainstream political parties, including his own, and social activists.

The application presented before the sessions court, moved by a member of another minority community, had stated that the PML-N leader had spoken in offensive terms against the non-Muslim population of the country.

The petitioner had pleaded that since police were unwilling to file a first information report against Safdar, the court should order the police to do so.

The court, however, dismissed the application.