Hindu sanitation worker arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of blasphemy

On Sunday, the extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) took place in front of a building in a Hindu family Hyderabad City on Friday.

A Hindu community leader in Hyderabad, who asked not to be named, said police arrested Kumar without a proper investigation into the incident.

“After the protest organised by TLP and held outside their building on Sunday, Hindu families living in the building where the incident took place were terrified,” he said.

The pages of an Islamic studies book were allegedly burned on Friday after the TLP organized protests across Hyderabad and demanded the registration of blasphemy cases and the arrest of the accused, according to the senior police officer.

Prominent Hindu leader Ravi Dawani has called on the Sindh government to conduct an impartial investigation into the matter.

TLP was declared a banned group in April last year after violent protests by the group forced the government to expel the French ambassador over the issue of profanity cartoons published in France.

former prime minister of pakistan Imran Khan In November, he allowed the extremist group to be removed from the list of banned groups, bowing to hardline Islamists to end deadly anti-government incitement.

Founded in 2015, the TLP has held protests over the years, mainly over alleged blasphemy against the Prophet.

Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where suspects are routinely attacked and sometimes lynched by mobs.

In December, a Sri Lankan factory manager was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob in Pakistan on charges of blasphemy.

The attack sparked widespread outrage, with then-Prime Minister Khan calling it “Pakistan’s Day of Shame”.

Critics have long called for reform of Pakistan’s bloodthirsty blasphemy law, saying it is often abused by influential members of society and extremists to terrorize religious minorities and force opponents to address personal hatreds.