ISLAMABAD - Police in Pakistan arrested dozens of people on Wednesday after a mob beat a Christian couple to death and burned their bodies for allegedly desecrating a Koran.Blasphemy is a serious offense in conservative Muslim Pakistan where those accused are sometimes lynched on the spot.Local media reported the Christian couple were accused of burning a copy of the Koran and throwing it in a rubbish bin in the province of Punjab on Tuesday.Police said their bodies were set on fire in a brick kiln."We have arrested 44 people, it was a local issue incited by the mullah of a local mosque," Jawad Qamar, a regional police chief, told Reuters."No particular sectarian group or religious outfit was behind the attack."
