PESHAWAR – A Chinese national in Pakistan has denied an accusation of blasphemy levelled by fellow workers on a hydropower project who said he had insulted the Prophet Mohammad, police said on Tuesday (April 19) after a court remanded him in judicial custody. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan and though no one has ever been executed for it,...
Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan, though no one has ever been executed for it.PESHAWAR – A Chinese national in Pakistan has denied an accusation of blasphemy levelled by fellow workers on a hydropower project who said he had insulted the Prophet Mohammad, police said on Tuesday after a court remanded him in judicial custody.
The Chinese man told the court late on Monday that he had been falsely accused, police official Tahir Ayub told Reuters. "The Chinese government has always required overseas Chinese citizens to abide by the laws and regulations of the host country and respect local customs," the ministry’s spokesman Wang Wenbin, said at Tuesday's news briefing.
China is a major ally and investor in Pakistan and its workers have on occasion been attacked by militants fighting the Pakistani government.
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