{"id":791,"date":"2023-08-29T02:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T02:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/network-of-hostile-intelligence-agencies-involved-in-recent-incidents-of-blasphemy-punjab-ig\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T02:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T02:35:19","slug":"network-of-hostile-intelligence-agencies-involved-in-recent-incidents-of-blasphemy-punjab-ig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/network-of-hostile-intelligence-agencies-involved-in-recent-incidents-of-blasphemy-punjab-ig\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Network of hostile intelligence agencies\u2019 involved in recent incidents of blasphemy: Punjab IG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Punjab Inspector General (IG) Dr Usman Anwar on Monday said the police have unearthed a \u201cnetwork of hostile intelligence agencies\u201d that were allegedly involved in the recent incidents of blasphemy across the country.<\/p>\n<p>On August 16, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1770582\/5-churches-many-homes-ransacked-in-faisalabads-jaranwala\">violent mob<\/a> of hundreds ransacked and torched nearly two dozen churches and attacked the residences of members of the Christian community and the office of the local assistant commissioner in Jaranwala.<\/p>\n<p>According to estimates compiled by Faisalabad\u2019s district administration, at least 22 churches ransacked by mobs suffered damages to the tune of Rs29.1 million whereas 91 houses which bore the brunt of violence suffered losses to the tune of Rs38.5m.<\/p>\n<p>As per police and local sources, the violence erupted after some locals alleged that several desecrated pages of the Holy Quran were found near a house at Cinema Chowk in Jaranwala, where two Christian brothers resided.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference in Lahore today, the Punjab police chief said over 300 people were interrogated during the probe while 180 were arrested on the basis of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted that no innocent person would be implicated for the sake of \u201cnumber scoring\u201d, adding that the perpetrators of the recent incidents of blasphemy in Sargodha and Faisalabad had also been nabbed.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anwar, a \u201cnetwork of hostile intelligence agencies\u201d was discovered to be behind these recent incidents of blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>He said the aforementioned events were a \u201cconspiracy\u201d to \u201cdivert attention\u201d from the communal clashes in India\u2019s Manipur state.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1770929\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>But unlike the Indian state\u2019s response, Anwar continued, Pakistani officials, civil society and scholars helped and supported Christian victims and spoke up against the injustice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Jaranwala violence, two more incidents of blasphemy were reported in Punjab,\u201d he revealed. \u201cThe culprits were arrested via modern technological methods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeace committees and Muslims acted along [with] the law enforcement and intelligence agencies of this country and we have unearthed a network of hostile intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese acts were done to deviate attention from this,\u201d he said pointing to a printout of a European Union motion to discuss the Manipur violence.<\/p>\n<p>Anwar said it would have been very easy for the Punjab police to bring the culprits to light and declare the case closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we had a guess that the background is this (Manipur), we tried to connect the links\u2026 another incident happened after a few days and we realised that there was a conspiracy to set the whole country on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that an investigation began soon after the \u201csequence of incidents\u201d to trace the culprits and the 2,500-strong Punjab police force successfully arrested the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the regional police officer completed the cyber evaluation, it was found that the suspects had links with a hostile intelligence agency,\u201d the police chief said, adding that attempts were made to \u201cpit Muslims here against Christians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The IGP reassured that such incidents would not reoccur as \u201cwe have broken the network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not let Pakistan become the scapegoat for the great injustice that was done across the border,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Inspector General (IG) Dr Usman Anwar on Monday said the police have unearthed a \u201cnetwork of hostile intelligence agencies\u201d that were allegedly involved in the recent incidents of blasphemy across the country. On August 16, a violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched nearly two dozen churches and attacked the residences of members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/08\/28173303e58ecd3.png?r=180725","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}