Tensions run high as more Christians are accused of blasphemy in Pakistan

(CHRISTIAN POST) – A Christian couple in Pakistan’s Punjab Province have been charged with blasphemy, raising alarm about the misuse of the nation’s contentious religious law, less than a month after mob attacks targeted over 80 Christian homes and 19 churches in the same province.

Shaukat Masih, 33, and his wife Kiran, 28, were arrested in Lahore’s Chaudhry Colony on Saturday.

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Muhammad Tamoor filed a complaint, stating he found Quranic pages scattered near the couple’s home. The police registered the case under Section 295-B of Pakistan’s penal code, which prescribes life imprisonment for the accused.