ISLAMABAD - Special Representative to the Prime Minister on Religious Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Tuesday said that no case of blasphemy was registered against the eight-year-old (Hindu) boy in Rahim Yar Khan.

Strongly denying British newspaper ‘The Guardian’s’ report titled “eight-year-old becomes youngest person charged with blasphemy in Pakistan,” he said in a statement that the newspaper had not reported the issue correctly as there was a big difference between registration of a case against blasphemy of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and the case of desecration of a sacred religious place. 

He said the desecration of seminary case should not have been registered by police as such cases defame the country. 

Legal action has been taken against those police personnel, who registered the case against the Hindu boy.

Some 73 people have already been arrested in connection with temple vandalism. Country’s leading Ulema and religious scholars had already condemned the temple vandalism and demanded exemplary punishment to the culprits, already behind bars.