Pakistan Mob Kills Christian Couple Over Blasphemy

This is another disturbing case related to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. A Christian couple in Pakistan have been beaten to death by an angry Pakistan mob after being accused of burning pages of the Quran, police say.

Their bodies were burned at the brick kiln where they worked in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab province.

Police identified the victims only as Shama and Shehzad, WSJ reports said.

Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue and critics argue the laws are often misused to settle personal scores and that minorities are unfairly targeted.

Police officials and government ministers have now arrived there to investigate the killings.

Since the 1990s, scores of Christians have been found guilty of desecrating the Koran or of blasphemy. While most of them have been sentenced to death by the lower courts, many sentences have been overturned due to lack of evidence.