Pakistan Court Acquits Bookseller Of Making Additions To Quran

In Pakistan, according to today's Daily Times, the Peshawar High Court bench has acquitted Abdul Ahad Noorani of charges of Tehreef (making additions to the text of the holy Quran). A lower court had imposed life imprisonment on the shop owner who, it was alleged, was selling the booklets of "Yasin Maghribi" and "Ayatul Kursi", in which he had done Tehreef. The lower court had statements from 12 eyewitnesses and had received a fatwa from a local mufti who said Noorani had added to the real text of books. In addition to acquitting Noorani due to lack of evidence, the High Court urged the government to create a religious scholars' body to issue fatwas on important issues, and to end the practice of unofficial fatwas.