[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced a man to death for sharing blasphemous content about Islam on social media, a government prosecutor said.ATC Judge Shabir Ahmed announced the sentence for the 30-year-old accused in Bahawalpur, according to Shafiq Qureshi.
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) had tossed in the clink
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the accused, who belongs to the Shia community, last year in Bahawalpur.
The accused, who hails from Okara, had allegedly posted derogatory content about prominent Sunni religious figures and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) and his wives on Facebook.
Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against him on behalf of the State at CTD Multan cop shoppe under Section 295-C (use of derogatory remarks, etc., in respect of the Holy Prophet) and Sections 9 and 11w of the Anti-Terrorism Act (which deal with whipping up sectarian hatred) .
The sentence is the harshest among cyber-crime related sentences handed down so far in the country. Pakistain has never executed anyone convicted of blasphemy.