Gulf Today
Hours after a Sri Lankan national was tortured to death in Sialkot, Pakistan, and his body set on fire after a hundreds-strong mob attacked him over blasphemy allegations, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday vowed to punish those responsible for the heinous act.
The Sri Lankan national was tortured to death in the Punjab Town earlier on Friday. An angry mob of hundreds also set the body of foreign national on fire after lynching him over blasphemy allegations.
“The horrific vigilante attack on factory in Sialkot & the burning alive of Sri Lankan manager is a day of shame for Pakistan,” the premier wrote on his official Twitter handle.
The premier revealed that arrests were being made and he himself was overseeing the investigation.
This lynching of the foreign national over the alleged blasphemy comes days after a mob in Charsadda, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, ransacked a police station and burned it down over similar allegations…
