Chinese man under Pakistani cops’ protection after blasphemy claim FMTNews FMTWorld
PESHAWAR: A Chinese supervisor at a dam construction project in Pakistan is under police protection after workers accused him of blasphemy against Islam, officials said today.
“The labourers said they were fasting but denied that work had slowed down, which led to an exchange of heated words” with the supervisor, a police official told AFP on condition of anonymity. “The Chinese national has been taken to a safe place as a precautionary measure,” Muhammad Nazir, a police official in Dasu, told AFP.A local administration official in Dasu, around 180km north of the capital Islamabad, said army and paramilitary troops were deployed “to ensure the safety of the engineers”.
Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan, though no executions have ever been carried out for the crime.
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