Pakistan: A man has been beaten to death by a mob in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The incident is of Saturday. The deceased was accused of blasphemy during a rally. According to media reports, a furious mob killed the man accusing him of blasphemy, whose video is going viral on social media. In the purported video, a crowd of hundreds of people is thrashing a person with sticks. The deceased is said to be a Muslim scholar, whose age is said to be about 40 years. It is being claimed that the deceased former Prime Minister Imran Khan was a supporter of The one who had come to the PTI rally.
Writer Harris Sultan has tweeted about this incident. At the same time, he has claimed that speaking anything about Islam in Pakistan is not free from danger. Regarding the killing of Imran Khan’s supporter by a furious mob, he has claimed that the person who was lynched by the mob was a Muslim scholar.
According to the author’s claim, the only crime of the deceased is that he publicly confessed that he “loved Imran Khan as much as the Prophet”. Behind loving Imran Khan, he reasoned that the PTE chief is a very honest person. Harris Sultan wrote in his tweet that I have been saying for almost 5 years that such incidents of lynching are going to increase. Harris Sultan has also shared the video in his tweet, in which a furious mob is beating a Muslim scholar.
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I’ve been saying it for at least 5 years that the frequency of these lynchings is only going to increase. According to initial reports, a cleric by the name of Maulana Nigar Alam said “I love Imran Khan like I love prophets.”
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— Harris Sultan (@TheHarrisSultan) May 6, 2023
Harris Sultan has written that according to initial reports, the deceased has been identified as Maulana Nigar Alam. He further criticized the incident and said that even a simple comment can kill you in Pakistan. In times to come, no one would mention Muhammad or any other prophet for fear that it might be considered ‘blasphemous’.
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