LAHORE, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law continues to be allegedly abused by extremists in Pakistan, at least five Christian boys have been forced to leave their homes in the Green Town area of the eastern city of Lahore, after they were accused of committing blasphemy, ANS has learned.

According to Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan (SLMP) five Christian boys, Shoaib Ilyas, Chaman Ashraf, Ashar Masih, Neeta Masih and Sunny were asked by local Muslims to leave the area or else face legal action for committing alleged blasphemy.

Sohail Johnson, Chief Coordinator of the SLMP told ANS that the trouble for the Christian boys started when local Muslims accused them of "desecrating" a banner that was inscribed with Quranic verses.

The accusation, according to the ministry, was slapped on the boys in question after a dispute between local Christians and Muslims.

SLMP’s fact finding revealed that some Christian boys were standing near an electric pole on April 30, 2010 when a banner, inscribed with Islamic verses, fell down due to heavy wind.

According to SLMP Shoaib, one of the accused, picked the banner and handed it over to a Muslim man who later accused Shoaib and local Christians of desecrating the banner.

As the word spread a large number of Muslims gathered at the local police station and demanded that Police First Information Report (FIR) be lodged against the alleged “culprits.”

Mr. Johnson told ANS that he had met with Muslim clerics and police officials to defuse tension between the two communities.

Mr. Johnson also apprised Kamran Michael, Provincial Minister for Minorities and Human Rights of the situation and he, in turn, the contacted police high-ups to “ease the situation.”

The Chief Coordinator of SLMP said that the police did not lodge a FIR against the accused because of intervention of his ministry and Mr. Michael.

Johnson said that reconciliation was brokered between local Christians and Muslims on the condition that the accused left the Green Town Area.

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