Friday, July 18, 2008

Hindu Child Burns a Koran

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. [...]

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