The Los Angeles Times reports:
A Muslim cleric who had accused a young Christian girl of desecrating the Koran has been arrested on suspicion of fabricating the case against her, a development that her lawyer said could lead to the girl’s release.
Police late Saturday arrested Khalid Chishti, an imam at a mosque in the same Islamabad neighborhood where the girl lived, and charged him with planting pages from the Koran into a bag of ashes and trash that the girl was taking to a garbage bin. Chishti was among the group of Muslims who claimed the girl, Rimsha Masih, had violated the country’s controversial blasphemy law.