Islamabad, Pakistan
Police arrested a Pakistani accused of writing insulting remarks against the Prophet Muhammad in a school examination, a police official said.
Police arrested 17-year-old Sami Ullah Karachi after receiving a complaint from the local board of education, said Karachi police officer Qudrat Shah Lodhi.
Lodhi declined to say what Ullah wrote in his high school diploma, for fear of violating the blasphemy laws of Pakistan themselves.
controversial laws say that pollute the name of the prophet must be sentenced to death or imprisoned for life.
The laws were sharply late last year, when the liberal politician in Pakistan Salman Taseer was shot after conducting a public campaign to change
Taseer said that the law has been misused to persecute minorities.
Ullah - the last was accused of blasphemy in Pakistan - a Muslim, according to police.
He wrote an alleged blasphemous comment, since the examination of the institution in April 2010, police said.
We do not know why it took months for the Cooperation Council for Education
Ullah mplaint cons the police arrive.
Ullah has apologized for his comments and asked the court for leniency, police said.
Police arrested a Pakistani accused of writing insulting remarks against the Prophet Muhammad in a school examination, a police official said.
Police arrested 17-year-old Sami Ullah Karachi after receiving a complaint from the local board of education, said Karachi police officer Qudrat Shah Lodhi.
Lodhi declined to say what Ullah wrote in his high school diploma, for fear of violating the blasphemy laws of Pakistan themselves.
controversial laws say that pollute the name of the prophet must be sentenced to death or imprisoned for life.
The laws were sharply late last year, when the liberal politician in Pakistan Salman Taseer was shot after conducting a public campaign to change
Taseer said that the law has been misused to persecute minorities.
Ullah - the last was accused of blasphemy in Pakistan - a Muslim, according to police.
He wrote an alleged blasphemous comment, since the examination of the institution in April 2010, police said.
We do not know why it took months for the Cooperation Council for Education
Ullah mplaint cons the police arrive.
Ullah has apologized for his comments and asked the court for leniency, police said.