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| Police save Christian couple from 'blasphemy' mob near Lahore |
| 2015-07-03 |
[DAWN] Police saved a Christian couple from a mob who were attempting to lynch them for allegedly committing blasphemy, and later juggedDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! a holy man for inciting the violence, a senior officer said Thursday. The incident, which took place in the village of Makki in Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... on Tuesday, represents a rare successful intervention by authorities in a country where even unproven allegations of blasphemy can result in a bloody death at the hands of vigilantes. Sohail Zafar Chattha, the district police chief, told AFP the illiterate Christian couple had obtained an old panaflex advertisement awning which contained the names and slogans of various colleges, which they were using as a mat to sleep on in their home. Arabic inscriptions, allegedly from the Holy Koran, were found among the colleges' slogans, leading one local barber as well as two holy mans to accuse the couple of committing blasphemy. |
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