Posted on 02/14/2022 6:29:24 PM PST by marshmallow
Mushtaq Ahmad, a mentally ill person, was stoned to death for desecrating the Quran in Punjab province
Two months after the lynching of a Sri Lankan over blasphemy allegations, a mentally ill person was brutally stoned to death for allegedly desecrating the Quran in Pakistan’s Punjab province.
An enraged mod lynched Mushtaq Ahmad after the son of a cleric accused him of burning pages of the Quran in a mosque of Talumba town in Khanewal district on Feb. 12.
“People were raising slogans and beating a person tied with ropes. Police tried to dissuade them but they kept beating him. They were armed with batons, hockey sticks, axes and rods. They later hung his body at a tree,” stated the police’s first information report registered against a mob of 300 persons.
Police said they had so far arrested 62 suspects for being part of the mob.
Mob killings over accusations of blasphemy — a crime that carries the death sentence — are frequent in the Muslim-majority country.
On Dec. 3, sporting goods factory workers in the eastern city of Sialkot lynched and burned the body of their Sri Lankan manager in an attack that Prime Minister Imran Khan said brought shame on the country.
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