By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press, Sept. 2, 2012

ISLAMABAD—A Muslim cleric is accused of stashing pages of a Qur’an in a Christian girl’s bag to make it seem like she burned the Islamic holy book, a surprising twist in a case that caused an international outcry over the country’s strict blasphemy laws.

Pakistani police arrested Khalid Chishti late Saturday after a member of the cleric’s mosque accused the imam of planting evidence as a way to push the Christians out of the neighbourhood. Chishti denied the charges Sunday while being led to court in shackles, wearing a white blindfold.

“I have not done anything wrong. This is all fabrication,” he defiantly told reporters.

The imam’s arrest could get the girl, who supporters say is mentally handicapped, out of prison, where she faces up to a life sentence for desecrating the Qur’an [....]

My comment: will somebody put that member of the cleric’s mosque who accused the imam of planting evidence as a way to push the Christians out of the neighbourhood in witness protection or something? And while they are at it, a medal or something.....