BCF : KARACHI, Pakistan — Last month, a man named Muhammad Mushtaq was accused of burning pages of the Quran inside a mosque in central Pakistan. A mob armed with sticks, bricks and axes gathered at the mosque and dragged him out.
Read it all here...............Mr. Mushtaq was tortured for hours and eventually killed, his body hung from a tree. A handful of police officers were among those who watched. The Feb. 12 killing in the district of Khanewal was denounced across Pakistan. Prime Minister Imran Khan said the government had “zero tolerance” for such mob violence and promised that the police officers would be punished.
The murder on February 12 in Khanewal district was condemned across Pakistan. Prime Minister Imran Khan said the government has “zero tolerance” for such mob violence and promised that police officers would be punished. But lynchings over Islam’s crimes, real or imagined, are not new in Pakistan, where blasphemy is punishable by death. Rights activists say lynching mobs take advantage of anti-blasphemy laws to take matters into their own hands.
These incidents have risen to alarming levels in recent years with increasing cases of deadly violence. Critics and rights activists say the prime minister’s pledges are mere sham and Mr Khan’s government, like his predecessors, has taken no practical steps to stop the violence.
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