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Lahore<\/strong>: Pakistan\u2019s Punjab police chief said on Monday that three main suspects have been arrested for conspiring to trigger \u201cMuslim-Christian riots\u201d in the country.<\/p>\n Addressing a press conference here, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Usman Anwar said police have taken 300 suspects into custody for torching churches and homes of Christians in Jaranwala.<\/p>\n An enraged mob attacked scores of churches and Christian localities over blasphemy allegations against a Christian man in Jaranwala town of Faisalabad district, 130 km from Punjab\u2019s provincial capital Lahore, on August 16.<\/p>\n They also attacked a Christian cemetery and vandalised the office of the local assistant commissioner.<\/p>\n \u201cAn intelligence agency of an enemy country is involved in a conspiracy to have Muslim-Christian riots in the country. The hostile intelligence agency is involved in the Jaranwala incident. We have broken a network,\u201d Anwar said, without naming any country.<\/p>\n He said out of the 300 people arrested, 180 have been formally charged under terrorism cases.<\/p>\n \u201cThree prime suspects behind the conspiracy to cause Muslim-Christian riots have also been arrested,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He claimed that the network behind the conspiracy has been exposed and no such incident will occur in the future.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Lahore: Pakistan\u2019s Punjab police chief said on Monday that three main suspects have been arrested for conspiring to trigger \u201cMuslim-Christian riots\u201d in the country. Addressing a press conference here, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Usman Anwar said police have taken 300 suspects into custody for torching churches and homes of Christians in Jaranwala. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6545,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions\/6545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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