Lahore: A middle-aged man was stoned to death by a mob in a village in Khanewal district. Pakistan‘s Punjab province for allegedly profane Quran on Saturday.
happened in the event Jungle Dera Village When hundreds of locals gathered after the Maghrib prayer, it was reported that a man tore a few pages of the Quran and set it on fire.
The villagers hung the suspect from a tree and then hit him with bricks until he died. When he claimed that he was innocent, no one was ready to listen to him. dawn,
According to eyewitnesses, a police team reached the village long before the stone pelting and caught the culprit, but the mob caught him from the custody of the SHO.
IGP Rao Sardar Ali Khan was asked by Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar to provide a report.
The killing comes at a time when, in a similar incident in Sialkot last December, a Sri Lankan engineer was murdered by construction workers for blasphemy, the newspaper reported.
Notably, Pakistan registered a total of 1,415 cases of blasphemy in the country since 1947, said the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank.
A total of 18 women and 71 men were executed extrajudicially over blasphemy from 1947 to 2021, according to the think tank’s report. However, according to the think tank, the actual number of cases is believed to be higher as all reported cases.
“The actual number is believed to be higher as not all cases of blasphemy are reported in the press,” the report said, adding that over 70 per cent of the accused were reported from Punjab.
happened in the event Jungle Dera Village When hundreds of locals gathered after the Maghrib prayer, it was reported that a man tore a few pages of the Quran and set it on fire.
The villagers hung the suspect from a tree and then hit him with bricks until he died. When he claimed that he was innocent, no one was ready to listen to him. dawn,
According to eyewitnesses, a police team reached the village long before the stone pelting and caught the culprit, but the mob caught him from the custody of the SHO.
IGP Rao Sardar Ali Khan was asked by Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar to provide a report.
The killing comes at a time when, in a similar incident in Sialkot last December, a Sri Lankan engineer was murdered by construction workers for blasphemy, the newspaper reported.
Notably, Pakistan registered a total of 1,415 cases of blasphemy in the country since 1947, said the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank.
A total of 18 women and 71 men were executed extrajudicially over blasphemy from 1947 to 2021, according to the think tank’s report. However, according to the think tank, the actual number of cases is believed to be higher as all reported cases.
“The actual number is believed to be higher as not all cases of blasphemy are reported in the press,” the report said, adding that over 70 per cent of the accused were reported from Punjab.
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