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Police in Pakistan have arrested two Christians accused of blasphemy, a spokesperson said on Friday, two days after a Muslim mob burnt churches and houses in the minority’s settlement, saying the two men had desecrated the Quran.
The accusations against the two Christians relate to pages of the Quran found with some derogatory remarks written in red, police said.
Paramilitary troops have been guarding the settlement in the eastern part of the country after the mob vandalised at least one main and four small churches and set scores of houses on fire.
A Christian graveyard was also desecrated, residents and the community leaders said, adding the mob dragged belongings from Christians’ houses and set them on fire in the streets, and took away valuables which they could carry.
Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan and though no one has ever been executed, numerous accused people have been lynched by outraged mobs. A former provincial governor and a minister for minorities were shot dead just because they had tried to reform the blasphemy law.
