Blasphemy charges: Khanewal police book man for claiming to be '11th caliph'

E-Paper | July 17, 2026

Khanewal police on Monday booked and imprisoned a fake pir on charges of committing blasphemy.

The man — who had claimed to be the "eleventh caliph of Islam" in a private gathering — was booked under Section 295-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 16 of the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance at the Thattha Sadiqabad Police Station in District Khanewal.

According to details in the first investigation report (FIR), police had carried out an intelligence-based operation against the accused after a video of him making the controversial claim in a private gathering went viral on social media.

According to the FIR, the accused had claimed in the video that news of his arrival had already given by Sufi saints and that the prime minister and army chief should take swear their allegiance to him.

It is not clear why the man made the claim, or if he suffers from any mental impairment.

According to the police, he has been arrested and sent to the Multan Central Prison.

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TruthSeeker

Oct 08, 2018 09:35pm

Which part of his claim blasphemous?

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Dr Asif

Oct 08, 2018 09:44pm

Make sure he isn't a mental health patient before executing the poor man. Ignorance is such a big issue in our society

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Mohib

Oct 08, 2018 09:47pm

It is their belief, what business the government got to control the beliefs and emotions of the people.

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Dr Arslan

Oct 08, 2018 10:14pm

There is a psychiatric term for this, grandeur delusion. He should undergo psychiatric evaluation.

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Ayesha

Oct 08, 2018 10:25pm

Totally mental person it seems, suffering from delusion. Should be sent to a mental treatment hospital not to jail. Doctors board should examine him and orders made to shift for psychiatric care.

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Omar

Oct 08, 2018 10:39pm

Where is freedom of religion? Unless a law has been breached how can someone be arrested for merely his religious beliefs.

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Seedoo

Oct 08, 2018 10:44pm

Does the police not have anything better to do than to go after mentally sick individuals? How about drug trafficking, child labor, robberies, rape, murder, etc. Have they all disappeared from Pakistan?

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Sajjad Memon

Oct 08, 2018 11:47pm

@Mohib - i suggest you watch his video. He is actually threatening the state to follow him or be ready for circumstances.

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Yawar

Oct 09, 2018 06:26am

@Mohib "It is their belief, what business the government got to control the beliefs and emotions of the people." It is much more than that. He is publicly challenging the writ of the government. I think he will be given a couple of years of qayd-e-bamushaqqat.

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Khwaja Tariq

Oct 09, 2018 06:57am

He should have been sent to the mental hospital for medical treatment instead of Multan Central prison.

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