A Chinese national in Pakistan has denied an accusation of blasphemy levelled by fellow workers on a hydropower project who said he had insulted the Prophet Muhammad, police said after a court remanded him in judicial custody.
Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan and though no one has ever been executed for it, numerous people have been lynched by outraged mobs after being accused of it, including a man in February and a Sri Lankan factory manager in 2021.
