Blasphemy charges: Briton handed death sentence

Police official says the accused had also printed blasphemous material.

RAWALPINDI: A special court inside Adiala Jail on Friday handed the death sentence to a man and fined him Rs1 million in a blasphemy case. Additional district and sessions judge Muhammad Naveed Iqbal after hearing arguments of the defence and the prosecution announced death sentence for Muhammad Asghar, a British national of Pakistani origin, who also confessed to his crime. On September 22, 2010, Muhammad Hafeez Awan, the complainant had lodged an FIR in Sadiqabad police station claiming that a month ago, Asghar had come to his office and made blasphemous comments. A police official told The Express Tribune that the accused had also printed blasphemous material.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 25^th, 2014.