A court in Madinah awarded jail term to six Pakistanis who were guilty of disrespecting Masjid-e-Nabwi (the Prophet’s Mosque) by shouting slogans during the visit of Pakistani Prime Minister and others in April.
Three of the accused have been sentenced to 10 years in prison, each while remaining three were awarded eight years imprisonment in Saudi Arabia.
According to media reports, Saudi administration had arrested six Pakistanis for disrespecting the Prophet’s mosque who shouted slogans and hackled federal ministers who were in the KSA along with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s delegation.
Pakistanis who were sentenced to 10 years are Ans, Irshad and Muhammad Saleem while Khawaja Luqman, Muhammad Afzala and Ghulam Muhammad will serve eight years in jail.
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 also imposed fine of 20,000 Riyals on each of them and confiscated their mobile phones.
Masjid-e-Nabwi incident
Some pro-PTI Pakistani pilgrims heckled federal ministers Marriyum Aurangzeb and Shahzain Bugti at Prophet’s Mosque when PM Shehbaz Sharif reached Medina to start his three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia.
In a viral video, a group of men can be seen, who encircled the federal ministers, used profanities against them for ousting from power Imran Khan and PTI government through a no-trust move.
Later on, the Saudi authorities arrested some Pakistani pilgrims on suspicion of being involved in the incident and started the investigation.
