Pakistan: Punjab police arrest Christian man over blasphemy charges in Gujrat town


Ahmad told The Express Tribune that he was the president of the TTIP Dinga city chapter, while Jalali was a member of their organisation and a dispenser at the same hospital where Masih worked.

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Source/Credit: The Express Tribune
By ET Correspondent | July 15, 2017

LAHORE: Police in Gujrat have arrested a Christian man over charges of committing blasphemy – an allegation made by a member of religio-political party Tehreek-e-Tuhafaz Islam Pakistan (TTIP).

Dinga police station SHO Shahbaz Hinjra told The Express Tribune on Friday that the accused, Shahzad Masih, had been taken into custody and an investigation was under way.

Masih works as a sweeper at the Shamim Riaz Polyclinic Hospital in Dinga city.
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According to the FIR registered against Masih, the complainant, Nadeem Ahmad, was at his shop, Saddar Electric Works, on the evening of July 13 when a man named Ishtiaq Jalali came to him and told him that Masih had uttered blasphemous words during a conversation with him.
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