Pakistan Court Sentenced Muslim Man To Death For Blasphemy
Pakistan court sentenced a man to death on charges of blasphemy, also fined five lakh rupees. A local court in Pakistan’s Punjab province sentenced a Muslim man to death on charges of blasphemy and fined him five lakh.
Amin, a resident of Laiya district, about 400 km from Lahore, was arrested a few years ago after his neighbor complained about blasphemy.
Pakistan court sentenced a man to death, additional Sessions Judge Hasnain Raja sentenced him to death on the basis of prosecution testimony.
It is noteworthy that at the beginning of this month, the Lahore High Court, taking an extraordinary decision, acquitted a Christian from the charge of blasphemy.
Sawan Christ, a street sweeper in Lahore, was sentenced to death by a trial court in 2013. This was the second case after Asiya Bibi when a Christian was acquitted of accusations of blasphemy.
Recently, Munir Mengal, who is fighting for the rights of the Baloch, said in the United Nations office in Geneva that the high-level cadet college run by the Pakistan Army is teaching children that Hindus are infidels and Jews are of Islam.
There are enemies. He said that the blasphemy law in Pakistan is used for the oppression of minorities. It is used against minorities in general incidents of violence.
Meanwhile, the ongoing protest in Gilgit Baltistan demanding the release of all political prisoners including local activist Baba Jaan continued for the third day.
The stringent law under which activists have been arrested has been questioned by the protesters. The protesters say that this area is not a part of Pakistan, so this law cannot be implemented here.
At the same time, experts say that Pakistan’s problems are trapped in the clutches of fundamentalism. He is also unlikely to come out of the FATF gray list. Since the Government of Pakistan has secretly lifted the ban on more than five thousand terrorists.
Even effective action has not been taken against the UN declared terrorist leaders like Hafiz Saeed and Maulana Masood Azhar. FATF may take a tough decision in the meeting going on from 21 to 23 October.
