A 17-year-old Christian boy has been arrested under Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws for sharing on Facebook an “inappropriate” photograph of Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, police said on Wednesday. “We have arrested Nabil Masih, for sharing a page on Facebook which had derogatory content about Kaaba, the holy place of Muslims,” said Muhammad Jamil, police officer of Phoolnagar police station, Kasur district of Punjab province.
Nabil is the resident of Deena Naath village of Kasur, some 50 km from lahore. Jamil said Nabil has been booked under blasphemy law of Pakistan Penal Code. He faces upto 12 years imprisonment under the charges. “Police acted on the complaint of Nabil’s neighbour who alleged that he checked the Facebook ID of Nabil and found him having ‘liked and shared’ blasphemous photograph of holy Kaaba which hurt his sentiments and of other Muslims,” Jamil said.