The Pakistan police on Sunday night arrested a Chinese language engineer on blasphemy prices for allegedly “insulting Allah” as per a report. An unnamed worker of a development firm – China Gezhouba Group, acquired right into a heated argument about “the tempo of labor” amid Ramadan, infuriating Pakistani labourers who tried to assault him, the Hong Kong based mostly South China Morning Submit reported.

Following the incident, he was taken into custody from the worksite camp positioned on the Dasu hydropower challenge in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

“He was taken into custody to avert a critical scenario…as scores of employees had gathered to assault him,” SCMP reported quoting native sources.

The altercation reportedly took in regards to the employees’ tempo of labor throughout Ramadan – the continued holy month of Islam, through which Muslims observe month-long fasting. Because the information of his alleged “blasphemous” remarks unfold throughout the area, a whole bunch of individuals gathered and blocked the Karakoram Freeway – linking Pakistan-China.

Following the incident, Pakistan police and paramilitary forces have been deployed to make sure the protection of Chinese language nationals engaged on the dam, the report additional stated. The protestors solely dispersed after assurance from the authorities that the engineer would face authorized punishment for his feedback.

Within the aftermath of the incident, the native non secular leaders will resolve in the present day whether or not to file a blasphemy criticism with the police, which if confirmed can carry a possible demise sentence, the report added.