Pakistan: 8 yr outdated Hindu boy charged with blasphemy, household flees space

Pakistan has booked an eight yr outdated Hindu boy underneath expenses of blasphemy, a draconian legislation that may warrant the loss of life penalty for the accused. He was charged for the crime after he was accused to have urinated on the carpet of a Madarsa.
The boy has been taken into ‘protective custody’ following the incident and he had spent per week in jail earlier than receiving bail. His household have gone into hiding following retribution. A member of the household informed The Guardian from an undisclosed location, “He [the boy] is not even aware of such blasphemy issues and he has been falsely indulged in these matters. He still doesn’t understand what his crime was and why he was kept in jail for a week.”
“We have left our shops and work, the entire community is scared and we fear backlash. We don’t want to return to this area. We don’t see any concrete and meaningful action will be taken against the culprits or to safeguard the minorities living here,” the member of the family added.
The head of the Pakistani Hindu Council, Ramesh Kumar, mentioned, “The attack on the temple and blasphemy allegations against the eight-year-old minor boy has really shocked me. More than a hundred homes of the Hindu community have been emptied due to fear of attack.”
Another Hindu activist, Kapil Dev, mentioned, “I demand charges against the boy are immediately dropped, and urge the government to provide security for the family and those forced to flee.” “Attacks on Hindu temples have increased in the last few years showing an escalating level of extremism and fanaticism. The recent attacks seem to be a new wave of persecution of Hindus,” he added.
Temple attacked by radical Islamists in Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab
On Wednesday (August 4), a Hindu temple devoted to Lord Gandesha was attacked by a frenzied mob of Pakistani Muslim males in Bhong metropolis of Rahim Yar Khan district within the province of Punjab. Taking cognisance of the matter, ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) parliamentarian Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani took to Twitter to publish movies of the temple assault and urged the legislation enforcement companies to cease the “burning and vandalizing” of the temple.
The mob claimed that the assault was in retaliation to the eight yr outdated boy urinating close to the Madarsa. The 8-year-old boy was even arrested and booked final week underneath Pakistan’s brutal blasphemy legal guidelines however was subsequently launched on bail for being a minor.
Subsequently, an alliance of twenty-two non secular and political events in Pakistan refused to sentence the assault on the Hindu Temple.