Islam.Asif Pervaiz, 37, has been in custody since 2013 for allegedly insulting Islam and was found guilty in Lahore on Tuesday.Pervaiz, who denies any wrongdoing, claims that after he quit his job at a hosiery factory, his supervisor Muhammad Saeed Khokher tried to convert him to Islam.But Asif says when he refused to change his beliefs, he was then accused of having sent blasphemous texts about Islam to his former boss.Insulting the prophet carries a mandatory death penalty in Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country.
Asif's lawyer Saif-ul-Malook told Al Jazeera: "The complainant was a supervisor in a hosiery factory where Asif was working under him."He denied the allegations and said that this man was trying to get him to convert to.
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