A 25-year-old guy from Chichawatni is the target of a blasphemy complaint from the Pakistan Police based on his Facebook postings.

Shamsul Hasan, an assistant sub-inspector at the Saddar Police Station in Chichawatni, filed a complaint on Saturday night, which prompted the opening of the probe. According to Dawn, the suspect, who lives in Chak 107/12-L, was fired from his job as an employee of the Senate in Islamabad.

The FIR, which was submitted in accordance with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 and Section 295(C) of the PPC, claims that the accused posted hate speech against the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The paper cites four distinct postings that make disparaging remarks against Islamic holy figures.

According to reports, while conducting a regular patrol in Chak 107/12-L near the Lower Bari Doab Canal, ASIs Shams and Imran Hyder, Constable Muddasir Jahangir, and driver Wakeel Ahmed came across the suspect’s Facebook account with the inflammatory messages on it.

These posts have been screenshotted by the police, who have kept them on a USB disk. Dawn stated that ASP Maazur Rehman promised that the culprit would be apprehended shortly, despite the fact that they were unable to detain him at that moment.

The suspect, a married father of three, took up the Senate position after the death of his father, a former clerk there. He is running from the law right now and wasn’t even in the village when the complaint was made.

According to DPO Faisal Shahzad, the suspect’s family has been placed under arrest and sent to a safe area by the police. He verified that only this year, seven incidences of blasphemy had been reported in the region of Sahiwal.

International human rights groups have often criticized Pakistan’s blasphemy laws for being too broad and frequently abused, which has resulted in extrajudicial deaths and mob violence.

Notwithstanding these worries, the Pakistani government has not yet taken major action to amend or remove these laws, which are widely seen as instruments of tyranny rather than justice.