According to the Dawn newspaper report, two nurses have been booked in Pakistan for violating the Blasphemy Law.
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In Pakistan, once again, two nurses have fallen prey to blasphemy law. Pakistan has been criticized worldwide for this disputed law. The case is from Faisalabad, a neighboring country, where the police have registered a case under the blasphemy law against two nurses working in the district headquarters hospital. Significantly, Pakistan is an Islamic country and there is a provision of severe punishment for insulting the religion of Islam.
According to the Dawn newspaper report, the hospital workers on Friday demonstrated fiercely against these two nurses. The protesters accused the duo of removing a sacred sticker on top of a cupboard and violating the blasphemy law. Some unruly protesters also attacked the police car parked inside the hospital, so that they could hold the accused nurses and punish them. But the police kept them locked inside the vehicle and took them to the police station.
Deputy Medical Superintendent claimed- nurses blamed
A police officer said that it was informed that two nurses had blasphemed by removing a sticker in a ward on Thursday. Mental patients are treated in this ward. Deputy Medical Superintendent Dr. Mohammad Ali gave an application to the police, claiming that the blasphemy charge had been proved by the hospital committee. He said that the head nurse took the removed sticker in his custody and informed him of the matter on Friday.
Minority community is targeted through blasphemy law
Blasphemy law has often been used to target minority communities in neighboring countries. The blasphemy law was implemented in the country during the rule of Pakistani dictator Zia-ul-Haq. Actually, Pakistan received blasphemy law as an inheritance from the British rule. During the British rule, a law was enacted in the year 1860 on crimes related to religion. After independence, Pakistan extended it to blasphemy law. Under this, there is a provision from death penalty to life imprisonment.
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