Judge considered the article published in the Payman Daily as blasphemous and touching feelings of Muslims as well as of followers of other religions. Concerning the journalist, whose name is not mentioned, they have started investigation. According to Afghanistan laws, he may face penalties from rebuke to death punishment.
Later the edition apologized for publication of the material. Former chief editor of the Payman Daily Razaq Mamoon said to AFP that the article had been republished from one of the Afghan web sites whose author was not a staff journalist of the newspaper.
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