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Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Mynd44: 5:40am On Dec 04, 2021
LAHORE, Pakistan — A Muslim mob descended on a sports equipment factory in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Friday, killing a Sri Lankan man and burning his body publicly over allegations of blasphemy, police said.

Armagan Gondal, a police chief in the district of Sialkot, where the killing occurred, said factory workers had accused the victim of desecrating posters bearing the name of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Police said initial information shows the Sri Lankan, later identified as Priyantha Kumara, a manager at the facility, was lynched inside the factory. Videos circulating on social media showed the mob dragging his heavily bruised body outside, where they burned it, surrounded by hundreds of others who cheered on the killers.

Senior police officer Omar Saeed Malik said police were still trying to determine what exactly prompted the mob to attack Kumara, whose body was sent to hospital for an autopsy. A thorough investigation was underway, he said.

In Colombo, Foreign Ministry spokesman Sugeeswara Gunaratne said their embassy in Islamabad was verifying details of the incident with Pakistani authorities.

“Sri Lanka expects that the Pakistan authorities will take required action to investigate and ensure justice,” he said.

Hours after the attack, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Twitter that the “horrific vigilante attack on factory & the burning alive of Sri Lankan manager is a day of shame for Pakistan.” He promised a thorough investigation and said those responsible will be severely punished according to the law.

In a statement, Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa denounced the killing, saying the “cold-blooded murder” by a mob in Sialkot was “extremely condemnable and shameful.”

“Such extra-judicial vigilantism cannot be condoned at any cost,” Bajwa added.

According to police, more than 100 suspects were arrested over involvement in the attack, widely condemned by many Pakistanis. They included at least two suspects who according to police openly said they took part in the attack to kill the Sri Lankan.

Amnesty International said in a statement it was “deeply alarmed by the disturbing lynching and killing of a Sri Lankan factory manager in Sialkot, allegedly due to a blasphemy accusation.” The watchdog also demanded an investigation and punishment for the attackers.

In the videos, some in the mob are heard chanting a popular slogan of a radical Islamist party, Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, which last month held a violent rally over the publications of caricatures of Islam’s prophet in France. The party gained prominence in Pakistan’s 2018 elections, campaigning on the single issue of defending the blasphemy law.

Mob attacks on people accused of blasphemy are common in this Islamic nation, although such attacks on foreign nationals are rare. Charges of blasphemy carry the death penalty under Pakistani law. International and Pakistani rights groups say accusations of blasphemy have often been used to intimidate religious minorities and settle personal scores.

Punjab’s chief minister Usman Buzdar tweeted that he ordered a probe into the attack. Khan’s special adviser on religious affairs, Tahir Ashrafi, condemned the killing and promised stern punishment for those involved.

Friday’s attack comes less than a week after a Muslim mob burned a police station and four police posts in northwestern Pakistan, after officers refused to hand over a mentally unstable man accused of desecrating Islam’s holy book, the Quran. No officers were hurt in the attacks in Charsadda, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Pakistan’s government has long been under pressure to change the country’s blasphemy laws, something the Islamists strongly resist.

A Punjab governor was shot and killed by his own guard in 2011, after he defended a Christian woman, Aasia Bibi, who was accused of blasphemy. She was acquitted after spending eight years on death row and, following threats, left Pakistan for Canada to join her family.

Ahmed reported from Islamabad; Associated Press writers Asim Tanveer in Multan, Pakistan, and Krishan Francis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, contributed to this report.


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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Lalami3232(m): 5:43am On Dec 04, 2021
This is so so so sad!!! Religion na one of the biggest issue wey we get for this world. So because he blasphem, una gather am kill. Na wa ooooo!!! Why not let God/gods fight for themselves? This same thing even happen for 9ja and you go see leaders, literate people dey cheer those hoodlums to carry on. It's a pity sha. I don come realize say na the poor people na carry this religious thing for head pass. Hardly would you see one big man for street dey accuse person for blasphemy or dey fight because of religion. All I know be say, religion don do us more harm than good for this life.
Imagine a world without religion, it would have been so peaceful and blissful. Thank God for this new generation sha, dem don know say religion no fit give you job, long life, money, basic amenities, infrastructures etc. If religion dey give those aforementioned, places like U.K, China etc for still dey backward. Immediately our leaders know say we get unity, dem go bring religion to divide the unity cry but God go help us to be wise someday.


I don talk am before and I go talk am again, " the day I go mistakenly born girl pikin eeh, I go **********"

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by djflexcy: 5:44am On Dec 04, 2021
IslamBad
I fear who no fear this religion �‍♂️

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by iceberryose(m): 5:45am On Dec 04, 2021
The worst nations in the world are the over-zealous religious ones. SMH

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Nobody: 5:45am On Dec 04, 2021
Islam religion of peace indeed. Cannot worship a god who cannot fight for himself leaving his worshipers to fight for him instead

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Fash20: 5:45am On Dec 04, 2021
Omoh. These ones are very quick to dispatch you if you mess with their religion.

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Reference(m): 5:45am On Dec 04, 2021
Violence can never and will never be the answer to anything.

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Dailyparrot: 5:46am On Dec 04, 2021
Aru cry cry

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Autodidact101: 5:46am On Dec 04, 2021
If this is a religion of peace then give me war instead.

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by doncollino: 5:46am On Dec 04, 2021
Their orgy their happiness and fantasies, all rolled in one.

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Mybetpicks: 5:46am On Dec 04, 2021
Same attitude worldwide. Disregard for the sanctity of life. You pray to a God and still kill for the same God?

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by inoki247: 5:47am On Dec 04, 2021
Na where our Nothern brothers learn dere own religion from b diz....


Cos I'm sure all diz typ of Saudi nd Dubai type of Islam is different from diz Pakistan nd Nothern type...

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by ENGINEERG(m): 5:47am On Dec 04, 2021
This EARTH has existed for over 4 BILLIONS YEARS AGO.
Christianity is just over 2000years.
Islam is just over 1500years.
But people living now, think they are the one serving real GOD, so people who lived since billions years ago don't serve God abi?
Religion is a problem in this world, but the way the fanatic Islamist behave, make this world so terrible and they are destroying this beautiful world too.
What they did during ancient era, when these ancient people founded these religions can not be done at this era again. Especially the evil things. Like killings.
Moreover, who can boldly say things in the holy books are directly from God?
Anyone can just say God say this, just to promote his religion then.
BUT CAN GOD TRULY SAY, KILL PEOPLE WHO BLASPHEMY ME?
AND SINCE GOD CAN DO ANYTHING, CANT GOD DEAL WITH ANYONE AS HE WANTS?
But If you think you have a GOD, and it is you that will be fighting for that GOD, you don't have a real GOD.
Killing of people for blasphemy, is even evil, and I even read how these Pakistani has killed a mad man too for blasphemy.
But Muslim clerics and leaders around the world must come out to condemn evil like this, else they are in support of it too.

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by cankerworm: 5:47am On Dec 04, 2021
RELIGION OF PISS

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by yorubakid: 5:48am On Dec 04, 2021
No difference between Pakistan with core northern Nigeria and The radicalized Southwestern Yoruba Muslims,both of them don't think with their brains,they allow they stupid Allah think for them. MURIC in South West will soon start lynching Yoruba Christians.. Tueh!!!! angry angry

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by WibusJaga: 5:49am On Dec 04, 2021


I wonder why/how a Supreme being who feels insulted or blasphemed against will rely on mere human mortals to effect punishment on the offender.
A Supreme being that controls all the forces of nature and has the power to open up the earth to swallow you or terminate your oxygen supply will be helpless in dealing with a blasphemer. SMH.

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by gentle136(m): 5:49am On Dec 04, 2021
This religion na curse to humanity

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by SensualMan: 5:50am On Dec 04, 2021
ISLAM-A-BAD! The world will be a better place without this people. Islam is a curse to the world. Everything about them reeks of evil and backwardness. That Mohammed didn't go to school and lived in dark ages doesn't mean all followers have to follow suit.
This is indeed religion of piss and sh*t!

Allahu Akbar! BOOOOOMMMMM!!!

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Rootprof(m): 5:50am On Dec 04, 2021
Fighting for God's is crazy ... If their is offended by the act of the victim and their God is powerful as they claim why can't he their God strike the man by himself... Religion is one of the enemies of this world.. killing fellow human for a so called supreme God...
Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by swipe900: 5:51am On Dec 04, 2021
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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Dozie32(m): 5:51am On Dec 04, 2021
These mumu Muslims don dey over do do ooo!

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Leverage2021: 5:52am On Dec 04, 2021
Religion of pain, lynching, sorrow, bloodshed

Freedom dies where Islam grows

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by frankfrank(m): 5:53am On Dec 04, 2021
Sincerely, how did humans come to this wicked act?
Setting Religious beliefs or sentiment aside, there is no offense whatsoever that warrant the death of a human life.
Love leads .........

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by Franklyspeakin: 5:53am On Dec 04, 2021
Na them ooo

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Re: Sri Lankan Citizen Lynched In Pakistan's Sialkot Over Blasphemy by cooooooks(m): 5:55am On Dec 04, 2021
Poor people, shepherded into believing that zealousness over thousand year old unverifiable texts is your only way out, in this life or the next.

Rest in Power.

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