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Islamabad: A man was sentenced to death for blasphemy on Wednesday after he defiled Quran and used derogatory language to refer to the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), a police official said.
Convictions for blasphemy are fairly common in Pakistan, with most cases involving members of religious minorities, but death sentences have never been carried out usually because convictions are thrown out on a lack of evidence.
The convicted man, Mohammad Shafeeq, a Muslim in his early 20s, was arrested in 2006 in a village near the eastern city of Sialkot where the trial was held in the court of Justice Shoaib Ahmad Roomi.
"Judge Roomi sentenced him to death for defiling the Holy Quran and using derogatory language against the Prophet," said Shezada Hassan Ali, a senior official at the jail where Shafeeq has been kept.
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