Five men were arrested on Tuesday evening for allegedly using offensive language against the companions of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) in Kotri.
According to the on-duty officer, Mohammad Ashraf, the men wrote derogatory remarks on the walls of six bogies of Sukkur Express when it was at Kotri.
Abid Hussain, Mohammad Hussain, Tasawar Hussain, Asghar Abbas and Mirza Hussain were brought to Karachi and arrested. According to the police, a score of members of the Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat gathered at Cantt Station and staged a sit-in. The Cantt police will handed the men over to the Kotri police.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 18th, 2012.
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they had it coming .
@ali baba, think in the sense that the words written were against some one dear to you
The import of Saudi and Iranian poison is destroying PAKISTAN
the best way to repeal this law is its full enforcement.
Is not it freedom of speech?
Good