Blasphemy case filed against Muslim women in Pakistan, know what is the charge

Lahore: Two Muslim women have been booked on blasphemy charges for burning pages of the Quran in Pakistan’s Punjab province, police said on Tuesday. Based on a complaint by a local imam Kashif Ali in Rai Kalan village of Kasur district, about 50 km from here, a private school principal Shahnaz Khan, and her cook Shazia Karamat have been booked under Section 295-B of the Pakistan Penal Code. 

The family had to leave the village

Police officer Khalid Salim told PTI that both the women and their families fled the village after Kashif Ali announced from his mosque that they (women) had burnt pages of the Quran on Saturday. He said that a large number of police forces had also reached there to prevent any untoward incident. He said that Shahnaz Khan had hidden before the attacking mob reached her house and school. 

Christian sisters were also accused

Earlier last week, Punjab police said they had registered a case against two young Christian sisters on charges of blasphemy. Samia Masih and Sonia Masih, both in their 20s, had allegedly thrown a sack full of Quran pages outside their house in Gojra in Toba Tek Singh district, around 200 km from here, on August 7. Meanwhile, Minority Alliance Pakistan chairman Advocate Akmal Bhatti said the charges of desecration against the Christian sisters were false.