The Punjab government has constituted joint investigations teams to probe multiple cases pertaining to the ransacking of churches in Faisalabads Jaranwala town following an alleged incident of blasphemy last week . The violence erupted after some locals alleged that several desecrated pages of the Holy Quran were found near a house where two Christian brothers resided .
A day after the incident both main accused in the case were arrested and kept in the custody of the Counter Terrorism Department . Several more arrests have been made in connection with the incident since . Punjab IG refutes reports of the arrest of a pastor named Amjad Alam who had recorded a video prior to his purported arrest .
The report quoted him as saying in the video that he was in Peshawar on August and not in JaranWala but personnel from the Crime Investigation Agency had arrived to arrest him. Dawn.com could not find the said video online . All the notifications stated that the JITs were being formed under the AntiTerrorism Act (AajEnglish.
com/Aaj English) All notifications issued in this regard are available with Dawn.coindo English.com can read more here: http://www.dailymailonline.uk/news/dailymail//newsonline/newsdaily/news.com.uk . The Punjab Police Chief General of Police Dr Usman Anwar said that he had been arrested and that he has been arrested.
The Punjab police Chief Minister Moshin Naqvi said that she had been caught in an earlier version of this version of the article. The article was published in the article was amended by the same article. It has been amended to clarify that the information was published by the Pundit.
