Daily Times

A Madinah court has found six Pakistanis guilty of disrespecting Masjid-e-Nabwi (the Prophet’s Mosque) by shouting slogan during the visit of Pakistani ministers in April, a private TV channel reported. Advisor to PM Tahir Ashrafi said that the Saudi administration had arrested six Pakistanis for disrespecting the Prophet’s mosque by shouting slogans and hackling federal ministers who were in the kingdom as part of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s delegation. Two days ago, a Madinah court sentenced them to prison, said Ashrafi. Three of the accused were sentenced to 10 years in prison, each. Rest were handed eight years imprisonment, he said. Those who have been sentenced to 10 years include Ans, Irshad and Muhammad Saleem. Others have been identified as Khawaja Luqman, Muhammad Afzala nd Ghulam Muhammad. The court imposed fine of 20,000 Riyals on each of them and has confiscated their mobile phones. Several Pakistani pilgrims had heckled federal ministers Marriyum Aurangzeb and Shahzain Bugti at Prophet’s Mosque after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif landed in Medina to start his three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia.