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Zuckerberg told in an interview that he had no intention to go to Pakistan, although there was a concern about security.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that he was once sentenced to death in Pakistan. In the YouTube interview, Zuckerberg said that a user had posted a picture of Profate Mohammed in a Facebook post, for which a case was filed against Zuckerberg. However, Zuckerberg did not say in which year the incident took place.
In this case, the Pakistani government demanded a person to hold Zuckerberg personally responsible for the blasphemy. Zuckerberg says that he had no intention of going to Pakistan, although there was a concern about security.
This disclosure is done at a time when there is a legal battle going on between the Meta (Facebook parent company) and the Pakistani government. In Pakistan, Facebook is alleged to have allowed material violating the country’s blasphemy laws.
Zuckerberg said that the values of freedom of expression in many places in the world are quite different from our values. These countries want us to take action on those things and ban that they are not valid with them.
Provision for death sentence on blasphemy in Pakistan
Pakistan is the world’s tough blasphemy law. Here, insulting the Quran or Prophet, there can be life imprisonment to death sentence. However, despite being sentenced to death, no one has been hanged in the country.
According to Pakistani media, more than 80 people have been killed by a mob on charges of blasphemy since 1990. Many times this happens when a rumor of insulting the Quran or Prophet gathers a crowd of thousands of people at any place and attacks the accused.
Pakistan’s famous cases in Pakistan in recent time
June 2024: On Thursday, an angry mob burnt a person alive for insulting the Quran in Pakistan. This incident is from Madyan area of Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The slain person was named Mohammad Ismail, who came to visit there.
May 2024: In Sargodha area of Punjab province, a mob accused the Christian man of insulting the Quran and set fire to his house and factory. People beat the person badly in the presence of the police. A few days later he died in the hospital.
May 2023: During a rally by former PM Imran Khan’s party PTI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a person was beaten to death by a violent mob on charges of blasphemy. The crime of that person was that he compared Imran to Prophet Mohammed.
April 2023: A Chinese engineer in Khyber Pakhtun area was attacked by a mob of thousands of people on charges of blasphemy law. The police saved his life with great difficulty and arrested him so that he could survive alive. The engineer later said that he used to treat the workers strictly. Therefore, an attempt was made to kill him intentionally.
