‘Desecration’: mob lets loose ire on police
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LAHORE: Police arrested a man for allegedly desecrating pages of the Holy Quran at Gulshan-i-Ravi on Sunday.
Humayun Faisal Masih has been booked in a case lodged by Syed Zeeshan under 295-B (Defiling, desecrating etc. of Holy Quran) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The suspect is a resident of Dhoop Sarri area of Sanda and he allegedly set a box on fire that contained holy script pages. A number of people started gathering at the Ravi Road police station and demanded that he be handed over to them. Police dispersed the crowd which then made for the suspect’s house, where it tried to torch a church.
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As DIG Operations Dr Haider Ashraf and other policemen tried to disperse the mob, some miscreants attacked and injured them. A policeman told this reporter that the mob was enraged and wanted to torch a church but police controlled the situation. Police also registered a case against the assailants and arrested some of them.
He said police responded to an emergency call that a man was burning pages of the Holy Quran. He said police took Humayun into custody and also recovered the box which was partially burnt and contained sacred pages. He said the box was installed at a pole at Gulshan-i-Ravi.
Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2015
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May 25, 2015 09:17am
This is going to destroy the country
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May 25, 2015 09:19am
Facial expression of Youth in the mob speaks all.
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May 25, 2015 09:37am
Civilized people are we ?
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May 25, 2015 09:41am
@AAhmed
They have already destroyed my peaceful Pakistan of 60s.
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May 25, 2015 09:42am
Wonder what will happen to the "Asia's biggest cross project" ?
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May 25, 2015 09:42am
Could it be that the box was meant to put torn holy pages? People sometimes put such pages in one place and since you can't throw them, you burn them. I think it's a respect thing.
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May 25, 2015 09:46am
If they wanted to take revenge, they should've went after the guy, not the whole community.
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May 25, 2015 09:51am
What do we do as Muslims, when we find Quranic scriptures on news papers etc, lying loose. Burn them? to avoid these Holy scriptures being thrown in gargbage? to avoid desecretion, we burn these scriptures? dont we?
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May 25, 2015 10:02am
well done police
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May 25, 2015 10:16am
I'm sure it was just accidental and no one intentionally set fire to holy script. Is there no room for errors or mistakes in this country? The police did the right thing to save the church and poor boy
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May 25, 2015 10:23am
Great Job by the Police for protecting the minorities
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May 25, 2015 10:24am
It looks like people looking for trouble only - don't they have anything else to do.
Learn to live in peace.
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May 25, 2015 11:00am
@reality check
dont worry the cross is in karachi where people are more tolerant and educated.
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May 25, 2015 11:14am
If it was intentional than must be prosecuted or it was a mistake (most probably as doing such act can lead to his death and no one would commit such crime where death is 99% sure) than he be treated accordingly. Crowd similarly crowd must be punished for trying to take law in their hands first so that we can set an example, if law is lenient than It has to be lenient for both the parties.
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May 25, 2015 11:28am
Is there a reason why all such incidents happen in Punjab ?
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May 25, 2015 11:44am
This should be at every check point but hidden way to monitor terrorist movements from one city to other.
If possible get finger print information at all check points but secretly to monitor the fast and frequent movement of terrorists. They have done damage in all parts country. To check the finger prints let him open the door of check points or toilets on high ways, or doors of restaurants on the high ways or tea shops on the high ways. All highways, intersections and secret travelling points should be monitored by the help of devices merely not staff. Criminals are using all kinds of cameras to make movies, why not intelligence agencies. Be careful from black sheep may disclose your points to terrorists.
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May 25, 2015 11:55am
This mob mentality must stop. Law of land must prevail. Thank you police for controlling this to be tragedy.
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May 25, 2015 12:05pm
@FEUDAL KINGDOM Really? There is a reason why we have police in place. People are not suppose to take law in their hands
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May 25, 2015 12:07pm
@FEUDAL KINGDOM Wow, thats a good piece of advise you got there.
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May 25, 2015 12:17pm
@reality check
indeed, me too!
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May 25, 2015 12:27pm
@syed These happen everywhere. Stop communlasing just because your favorite party does not rule Punjab
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May 25, 2015 12:36pm
To offset the danger of black sheep, hidden intelligence devices can help to catch agents and black sheep both simultaneously. This is new era of intelligence devices, will be suitable and might be easy / cheap as well. No harm to try.
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May 25, 2015 12:53pm
@Juliana Fitzwater not so much in Karachi dude
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May 25, 2015 01:23pm
uncontrolled religiosity eventually destroys everything.
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May 25, 2015 04:02pm
What from Hindustan as well ?
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May 25, 2015 04:48pm
Soon it will be a Ghost Haunted Place : if we feed this Ideology .
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May 25, 2015 05:25pm
@raja farhat abbas ....ofcourse you are the civilised society of the world.....and these mobs also..this is the real picture of Pakistan
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May 25, 2015 05:47pm
Lack of tolerance is the mother of all ills.
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May 25, 2015 05:49pm
Please read intolerance instead of tolerance in my comments.
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May 25, 2015 05:53pm
Educated tolarent ppl of pak pak
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May 25, 2015 07:47pm
Police did a commendable job .hats off for resisting the mob psyche .on the other hand ,these so called enraged should be arrested
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May 25, 2015 08:17pm
Police did a commendable job.
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May 25, 2015 09:00pm
Honoring the prophet is an act of faith. This is done by following the example of the prophet of forgiveness and excellent character. It is not by killing in his name.
We all dishonoring the prophet by doing the opposite of what he wanted us to do by cheating ,lying and killing. Those who love the prophet should follow his teachings.
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May 25, 2015 10:58pm
Looks like these people who are protesting in this pictures does not look like they are educated people , instead of taking law in your own hand, they should have gone to proper authority to file complaint.
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May 26, 2015 12:15am
@observer GO Where it is there country as much as anyone else.
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May 26, 2015 12:16am
@Ahmed Seriously Karachi is more tolerant. The facts speak otherwise
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May 26, 2015 12:18am
@DawNishWere If our faith tells us to leave others alone then let them do it so what?! The more you worry about stupid things it excites people. They could also be angry at what they are experiencing as a minority in their own land.
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May 26, 2015 12:52am
Amazing how this riles up a mob ready to destroy, but they remain at ease with a status quo that takes away their basic rights. Pathetic.
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May 26, 2015 01:01am
Can somebody believe that this is the same region where once Buddhism flourised?
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May 26, 2015 06:24am
So long as they do not release their ire on the country once they have run out of easy victims.
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May 26, 2015 06:30am
@amit
According to my numbers 70% of Pakistan is under the age of 31.
Young people won't want change. They will demand change.
They will demand fairness. It will soon be time to rip out the rotten wood in the parliament. Then the courts.
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May 26, 2015 06:31am
@Realist
You should have seen the ball coming.
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May 26, 2015 06:40am
@observer
Have the government get them visas and give them travel money.
Many would be happy to be resettled outside Pakistan.
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May 26, 2015 06:46am
@syed
Only most such incidents.
In psychology this is called "the pecking order". Every chicken knows which chickens it can peck and which ones can peck him.
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May 26, 2015 06:47am
@anita turab
No one in his right mind would dare to do that.
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