A mob of factory workers in eastern Pakistan tortured and burned alive a Sri Lankan executive today, accusing him of blasphemy in a “horrific” attack in which Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had shamed the country.
A police officer in the eastern city of Sialkot, who did not want to be named because of the sensitive nature of the case, said investigators believed the perpetrators blamed the director for blasphemy because he tore down a poster with Islamic scriptures. .
“The factory workers tortured the director,” said Hassan Kawar, a spokesman for the provincial government.
“A total of 50 people have been identified and arrested so far.”
Kahn condemned the brutal murder, stressing that he personally oversees the investigations and that the perpetrators will be punished.
“The horrific attack of self-imposed punishments on a factory in Sialkot and the fact that the director from Sri Lanka was burned alive is a day of shame for Pakistan,” he said in a Twitter message.
Videos posted on Twitter show the victim being beaten by men, some of whom are shouting anti-blasphemy slogans. Other images show the charred corpse of the unfortunate man in front of dozens of men. Many of them make no effort to hide their faces and do not hesitate to take selfies in front of the corpse.
Underlining the shock of the savage lynching, Pakistan’s powerful armed forces also issued a statement condemning the “cold-blooded killing”.
“Such an out-of-court settlement cannot be accepted at any cost,” the statement from the Armed Forces Press Office said, adding that the chief of staff had given full support to .
A Punjab police spokesman said more than 100 people had been arrested, including the prime suspect, who appeared on video torturing the director and urging others to attack him.
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