Two Christian nurses face death penalty for ‘removing Quran sticker from colleague’s locker’

Islamist activists from the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party reportedly stirred a mob at the hospital demanding the two women be hanged.

Ms Lal was reportedly stabbed as she fled the chaos.

She told cops that she and Ms Urooj, a medical student, were asked to tidy the locker belonging to the hospital's head nurse, who is Muslim.

Ms Lal said they scratched the sticker off with a pen - and the next day they were accused of blasphemy.

Deputy superintendent Rana Atta said: "After Friday prayers, a mob gathered and tried to kill them both.

"We arrived at the scene and saved them. The investigation is going on. Both the girls are safe now and sent to jail for 15 days’ judicial remand."

Human rights groups have spoken out against the allegations.

Local activist Lala Robin said: "This is a false allegation and minorities feel more insecure in Pakistan than ever.

"This is a campaign by the TLP to serve their politics. The Christian nurses in Faisalabad live in a state of fear."

It comes after a Christian nurse was reportedly tied up, stripped and tortured by a mob inside a hospital in Pakistan after a Muslim colleague falsely accused her of blasphemy earlier this year.

Medical staff joined in the vicious attack on Tabitha Nazir Gill, 30, at the Sobhraj Maternity Hospital in Karachi in Feburary.