Law enforcement agencies (/topic/law-enforcement-agencies) in Pakistan are tightening the noose on blasphemers on social media and arresting people allegedly involved in this activity, The Nation, a daily newspaper based in Lahore, Pakistan, reported.Sixty-two people involved in blasphemy have been detained, The Nation reported.
Out of the arrested blasphemers nine have been given capital punishment by courts and high courts have
given two the death penalty. Although none of the people involved in these cases has been let free on bail by any court yet, The Nation reported quoting tentative statistics.
Organisations like Legal Commission on Blasphemy Pakistan, Namoos-e-Risalat Lawyers Forum Pakistan, Legal Thinkers Forum, Tehreek Tehfuz Namoos-e-Risalat Pakistan, World Khatm-e-Nabuwat Council, Anjuman Ashqaan-e-Muhammad, Tehfuz Khatm-e-Nabuwat Forum, Tehfuz Khatm-e-Nabuwat Wukla Forum, Legal and Cyber Experts Forum, Razakaran-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat and Islamabad Bar Association have come in the forefront to counter the rising blasphemy (/topic/blasphemy) cases on social media. The Nation reported that these organisations have been seeing all the blasphemy (/topic/blasphemy) cases through and through.
Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) The Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony (MORA) had also reactivated its Web Evaluation Cell to control and counter these blasphemy
cases and has released social media handles to register complaints for the cases of
blasphemy The Nation reported quoting a statement given by MORA spokesperson
Muhammad Umar Butt.
According to The Nation, the Legal Commission on Blasphemy Pakistan Secretary General Sheraz Ahmad
Farooqui informed that utilizing its Cyber Crime Wing’s expertise, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had booked an accused allegedly involved in the publication of indecent content against the sacred books Quran and Bible on social media. However, it had also arrested two miscreants allegedly involved in the proliferation of desecration stuff on social media, he said in November this year