PAKISTAN: Pastors Booked Under Blasphemy in Lahore

The incident took place at the shop of Mushtaq Masih on 8th October 2013 and FIR No. 675/13 registered on 9 October, 2013 at about 12:05 midnight.

Attacks on Christians in Pakistan

(LAHORE, Pakistan) - Police registered a blasphemy case against Pastors Adnan, Arfan and Mushtaq Masih, under blasphemy laws, Sections of 295,295 A,295 B, 295 C Pakistan Penal Code. The three were charged under Sections 295 A, B and C of PPC at Police Station Township on the complaint of a Muslim man, Abid Mehmood s/o Muhammad Ashraf Aqib, 153 A Lala Zar Colony Pagat Pura Shadbagh.

He complained that the accused Pastor Adnan wrote some derogatory remarks in a banned Islamic book named, "Why we became Muslims" about Islam, written by Maulana Ameer Hamza, a leader of JUD.

The incident took place at the shop of Mushtaq Masih on 8th October 2013 and FIR No. 675/13 registered on 9 October, 2013 at about 12:05 midnight.

A request note of prayer is sent to Advocate Sardar Mushtaq Gill, Chief of LEAD by Advocate Hadayat Bashir that we must pray for the surrounding area and vicinity where a large number of Christians are living because the local Christians of area are terrified and worried from happening some bad thing.

In Solidarity,

LEAD