ATC sentences man to death for sharing blasphemous content.

PESHAWAR -- An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Peshawar has sentenced a man namely Syed Zeeshan to death for sharing blasphemous content on social media, media reported on Friday.

The ATC Peshawar also pronounced 23-year imprisonment and Rs800,000 fine to the accused Syed Zeeshan after finding him guilty of sharing blasphemous content on social media.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) apprised the court that the accused - a residence of Toru village of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) Mardan - shared blasphemous posts on different accounts of social media.

The agency also told the ATC that Zeeshan had also committed...

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