ISLAMABAD — Police in Pakistan say officers have arrested two Muslim religious scholars for inciting a mob to attack a Christian couple on blasphemy charges. Local police officer Farooq Ahmed said onSaturday that the couple was beaten up and paraded around Makki, a village in Punjab province, on June 29. Ahmed said the intervention of police probably saved the couple's lives. The incident apparently stemmed from the impoverished couple's use of an advertising banner as a form of household upholstery. The banner bore a phrase from the Holy Qur'an and a Muslim visitor to the home told neighbors she saw the couple sitting on the Quranic verses. Two local religious scholars called for the couple to be punished, according to Ahmed. — AP
