The Karachi police registered a case against three Christian men under blasphemy laws in the aftermath of violent protests in Karachi, a day after suicide attackers blew up a church in Peshawar killing more than 100 Christians.
The attack on All Saints Church last Sunday led to countrywide protests.
During the protest, a brawl and scuffle took place between Christians and Muslim youth after some miscreants threw stones on a mosque at Zaman Town in the Korangi area. A Muslim man also died in the brawl after he got hit in the head, the police said.
Some of the Christians houses were set on fire by the miscreants last Monday but the situation was controlled by the police.
The police on Friday said that Nazir Ahmed, who is the member of administrative committee of the Khulfai Rashideen mosque, registered a report against three Christians namely Babar, Ilyas and Robert for committing blasphemous acts.
He accused the three men of hitting the names of the caliphs with stones and sticks that is considered desecration.
Police officer Mohammad Khan said that the three men were arrested on Thursday but were released on bail on Friday.
The case was registered under section 298-F that is a lenient clause of the law as the maximum sentence under this act was three year imprisonment. Under the main clause of the blasphemy law the maximum punishment is death here.
Murder case against three other men was also registered but they were absconders, the police said.
Utterly disgraceful. The Christian community is being persecuted in Pakistan. We Pakistanis should stand up to those with hatred in their hearts and say clearly that we are all one people.
As a citizen and as a minority is itself blasphemy
i just would like to humbly request my grieved christian community that while their protest against church attack they should respect the religious faith of our muslim brothers those have showed their full moral support to the christians all over the country durring this painful incident.church attack is a national level grief which hurt the whole pakistani nation not only the christians.
Let the witch hunts continue…this blasphemy law makes Pakistan the laughing stock of the free world…when will Pakistan move into the 21 st century?…
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