Mob ransack Christian boy’s home at Pakistan
Karachi: A mob in Pakistan ransacked the home of a teenage Christian boy in Pakistan’s Karachi city and set fire to furniture and some other household articles after he was accused of sending text messages with blasphemous content, a media report said today.
Police said the boy was accused by local residents of sending text messages containing blasphemous content to employees and officers of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) at the residential-cum-office compound, the Dawn newspaper reported.
After the news circulated among residents of the colony, a mob attacked the quarter of 16-year-old Ryan Stanten.
His mother, Rubina Bryan, works as a superintendent in Sui Southern Gas Company.
The SMS was allegedly passed on by the teenager on his cell phone on Tuesday. After receiving it, some local residents had gone to the boy and asked him about it.
He told them that he had forwarded the SMS after he had himself received it, according to DIG Shahid Hayat.
“Ryan told complainant Khursheed Alam and Pesh Imam Qari Ghulam Qadir of the SSGC Jamia Mosque that someone sent him this SMS and he forwarded it to all Muslim friends without reading it,” said Hayat.
