[fidelis]

"Officials then brought in local scholars and clerics, including some who had been in the angry crowd...They looked at the calligraphy on the dress and concluded it did not contain any Quranic verses, apologizing for their misunderstanding...Bano said the dress was instead printed with the Arabic word “helwa,” which means beautiful."

It didn't help that the crowd was apparently illiterate in their own written language.

[Cronos]

Nearly all Pakistanis cannot read Arabic.

The languages of Pakistan are Urdu (a variant of Hindi, but written in arabic script), punjabi, sindhu, pashto etc.

Arabic is not spoken or read by most mohammedans.

Mohammedans globally memorise the sound of the Quran in Arabic for recital but they generally can’t read it.