A Chinese supervisor at a dam construction project in Pakistan is under police protection after workers accused him of blasphemy against Islam, officials said Monday. Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where even rumours of sacrilegious remarks can incite lynch mobs and deadly violence. Officials said the engineer at the Dasu hydropower project
Police identified the man only as Mr Tian from China and said he was arrested on Sunday night, hours after hundreds of residents and labourers working at a dam project rallied to demand his arrest.