LAHORE: A 17-year-old Christian boy has been arrested under Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws for sharing on Facebook an “inappropriate” photograph of Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, police said on Wednesday. The boy, Nabil Masih faces up to 12 years in jail. His family had to leave their village to avert any possible attack on them, police said.
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