Via PTI:

A young man in Pakistan’s Punjab Province has been arrested for sharing blasphemous content on Facebook, as the government launched a crackdown on the spread of such content on social media.

Authorities arrested Raza Kharal in Toba Tek Singh district of Pakistan’s Punjab province, about 200 kilometres from here, for sharing blasphemous content on Facebook.

A blasphemy case was registered against Kharal for sharing material containing objectionable language on his Facebook wall, a police official said.

He said the police had taken action on the complaint of local cleric Maulana Salim.

Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah has said the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been requested to remove all objectionable and blasphemous material from the Facebook and other social media.

“We have also requested the Federal Investigation Agency to take action against those spreading hate material through social media,” Sanuallah said.