http://www.dawn.com/2008/07/17/nat20.htm
Dawn [Pakistan]
17 July 2008
Tension grips town over blasphemy rumours
By Our Correspondent
HYDERABAD, July 16: Tension gripped Thano Bula Khan — a remote mountainous area between Hyderabad and Karachi — on Tuesday after rumours that a Hindu child in Thano Ahmed Khan town had burnt a copy of the Holy Quran.
People gathered in the town to pressurise police to take action against the child.
Later it was revealed that the child, who works in a grocery shop, had mistakenly given a buyer some goods wrapped in a page from a textbook of Islamiyat which had a Quranic verse on it. [...]
Dawn [Pakistan]
17 July 2008
Tension grips town over blasphemy rumours
By Our Correspondent
HYDERABAD, July 16: Tension gripped Thano Bula Khan — a remote mountainous area between Hyderabad and Karachi — on Tuesday after rumours that a Hindu child in Thano Ahmed Khan town had burnt a copy of the Holy Quran.
People gathered in the town to pressurise police to take action against the child.
Later it was revealed that the child, who works in a grocery shop, had mistakenly given a buyer some goods wrapped in a page from a textbook of Islamiyat which had a Quranic verse on it. [...]
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