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| Man Accused of Blasphemy Shot Dead |
| 04.20.05 (11:33 am) [edit] |
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani man accused of desecrating the Koran was shot dead Wednesday after being chased by an angry crowd. Ashiq Nabi, in his thirties, was accused of being disrespectful to Islam's holy book and had been in hiding since Monday, a senior police official said. "Today, a mob spotted him and shot him dead," said Mazahar ul Haq, police chief of Nowshera town, about 100 km (62 miles) west of the capital, Islamabad. Blasphemy, including desecrating the Koran, is a capital offence in deeply Islamic Pakistan and carries the death sentence, but convictions have always been turned down by high courts because of a lack of evidence. Witnesses said the man was chased through fields and climbed a tree to get away from an angry crowd of up to 500 men. When he refused to come down, someone shot him dead, they said. Human rights activists want the blasphemy law to be struck off the books saying it is often abused by people to settle personal disputes or religious rivalry. Courtesy of the Religion of PeaceTM http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm /20050420/od_nm/religion_ pakistan_blasphemy_dc" title="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm /20050420/od_nm/religion_ pakistan_blasphemy_dc" target="_blank"http://story.news.yahoo.com/n... |
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