The police in Pakistan say officers have arrested two Muslim clerics for inciting a mob to attack a Christian couple on blasphemy charges.
The police in Pakistan say officers have arrested two Muslim clerics for inciting a mob to attack a Christian couple on blasphemy charges.
Local police officer FAROOQ AHMED said the couple was beaten up and paraded around Makki, a village in Punjab province, on 29 June.
The police in Pakistan say officers have arrested two Muslim clerics for inciting a mob to attack a Christian couple on blasphemy charges.
Local police officer FAROOQ AHMED said the couple was beaten up and paraded around Makki, a village in Punjab province, on 29 June.
AHMED said the intervention of police probably saved the couple's lives.
Reports say the incident apparently arose from the poor couple's use of an advertising banner as a form of household upholstery.
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