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Police officers power an aggravated assemblage protesting against a mentally unstable antheral accused of blasphemy, successful Mandani, an country of Charsadda district, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Pakistani authorities said a mob burned a constabulary presumption and 4 constabulary posts successful the northwest overnight and demonstrators wanted to lynch the antheral connected charges that helium desecrated the Quran, Islams beatified book. (AP Photo/Zia Mohammad)

PESHAWAR – A Muslim mob burned a constabulary presumption and 4 constabulary posts overnight successful northwest Pakistan aft officers refused to manus implicit a mentally unstable antheral accused of desecrating Islam's beatified book, the Quran, authorities said Monday.

No officers were wounded successful the attacks, which forced the constabulary to summon troops to reconstruct bid successful Charsadda, a territory successful the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, section serviceman Asif Khan said.

A video posted connected societal media showed the constabulary presumption burning.

Khan said officers foiled an effort by the mob to lynch the detainee and the constabulary moved him to different district. He did not disclose the sanction of the man, saying officers were inactive investigating and the fishy was arrested a time ago.

Khan said officers initially resisted but fled aft thousands of demonstrators attacked the constabulary buildings. He said constabulary avoided the usage of unit to forestall casualties among demonstrators. The concern successful Charsadda was mean Monday, helium said, and instrumentality enforcement was seeking to apprehension radical linked to the attacks.

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Blasphemy carries the decease punishment successful Pakistan, wherever specified allegations of the discourtesy are often capable to provoke mob violence. International and home rights groups accidental that accusations of blasphemy person often been utilized to intimidate spiritual minorities and settee idiosyncratic scores.

In 2017, a radical of students astatine the Abdul Wali Khan University successful the northwestern metropolis of Mardan attacked and killed different student, Mohammad Mashal, aft accusing him of sharing blasphemous contented connected Facebook.

A Punjab politician successful Islamabad was besides changeable and killed by his ain defender successful 2011, aft helium defended a Christian woman, Aasia Bibi, who was accused of blasphemy. She was acquitted aft spending 8 years connected decease enactment and, receiving threats, near Pakistan for Canada to articulation her family.

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