Source/Credit: Daily Times | Pakistan
By Staff Report | July 6, 2011
KARACHI: A Christian youth, Noel Gulzar, has said that some religious extremists had threatened to kill him over an alleged blasphemy matter. He demanded of the government to provide him protection.
This he demanded while talking to journalists at the Sindh High Court’s cafeteria. Gulzar further said a few months ago he got a shop at Meccasa Shopping Centre, near Essa Nagri on rent for starting own business of ‘books and stationery’. After that he started cleaning the shop from where all the garbage was picked up and burnt outside the shop, he said.
On the same day some unidentified people came to his shop and levelled allegations that ‘he has committed blasphemy because of garbage burning, as it was the Holy Quran and the leaves of the Hadith’.
As the matter appeared, he escaped from the scene and tried to approach the PIB Colony police station to register a complaint of the incident but unfortunately as he reached the premises of the police station those people were sitting there, he said.
To a query, Gulzar said that later he sent a complaint to the SHO PIB Colony through courier service. He also demanded of the Sindh governor, chief minister, inspector general of police and CCPO Karachi to provide him protection.
Chairman Standing Committee on Minorities Affairs and Pakistan People’s Party MPA Saleem Khursheed Khokhar, while talking to Daily Times on the issue, said that Gulzar had come to him. He said: “It is the badness of our society that some opportunists are using the religion for their wasted interests and a common man is facing trouble.”
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