Family of Masood Ahmad want help after Pakistan arrest

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10 January 2014 Last updated at 01:46 ET

By Athar Ahmad
BBC Asian Network

The family of a British man arrested in Pakistan for "posing as a Muslim" are calling for the government to help bring their father back to the UK.

Masood Ahmad was jailed in November on blasphemy charges after being secretly filmed reading from the Koran.

The dual Pakistani-British national, 72, belongs to the minority Ahmadiyya sect, considered heretics in Pakistan.

They were declared non-Muslim in 1974 by the Pakistan government and have restricted religious practices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-25674587

A man accused of posing as a Muslim wants to return to . . . . Scotland?

No comment.

[el_bryanto]

1. Posing as a Muslim by reading the Koran.

That's messed up.

Bryant