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School teacher in Muzaffargarh held over 'baseless' blasphemy claim
 [DAWN] MUZAFFARGARH: A Muslim school teacher in Mehmoodkot was accused of blasphemy by parents of his students, sparking anger from school officials and activists who said the law is being abused to carry out personal vendettas.Arabic teacher Gibreel Ahmed was incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at a government school in southern Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province on May 14 after allegedly beating two brothers in the sixth grade for not coming to class on time. The students' parents complained to the Government High School Gurmani in Muzaffargarh district, whose head said "the 40-year-old teacher had been suspended after an inquiry". But four days after the original complaint, the parents went to police to accuse Ahmed of blasphemy, according to local authorities. The school said no mention of blasphemy had been made before the police complaint. Following the complaint by Bilal, father of the sixth-grade students, police have registered an FIR at Mehmoodkot cop shoppe. DPO Muzaffargarh Owais Malik, while talking to Dawn, said "we have registered the case to save his life". Posted by: Fred 2016-06-02 |
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