Police arrested a Shia Muslim for allegedly burning the Holy Quran, an official said on Thursday. Police arrested the man on Wednesday in Rawalpindi after burned pages of the Holy Quran were found in his second-floor apartment in the city's Ghazni Road neighbourhood.
Police searched the home after the detainee's relatives reported seeing him carrying copies of the Holy Quran and walking with a cameraman into his apartment, a Rawalpindi police officer said on condition of anonymity. The man has not been officially charged yet but is due to appear in court soon. No date has been set. The cameraman was also detained but he is expected to be released, the officer said. Police suspect the man may have been trying to make a movie of the burned Quran to use it as evidence to implicate some of his Sunni neighbours in a blasphemy case, the officer said. |