A mob of workers in Pakistan burned alive a Pakistani factory manager for taking down posters containing verses from the Koran. Photo/REUTERS TV via REUTERS
Prime Minister Imran Khan strongly condemned the rampant factory mob, which he said had embarrassed the country.
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A police official in the eastern city of Sialkot, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case, said investigators believe the attackers accused the factory manager of blasphemy by taking down posters containing verses from the holy Koran.
“The factory workers tortured the manager,” said local provincial government spokesman Hassan Khawar. “A total of 50 people have so far been identified and arrested,” he said Reuters, Saturday (4/12/2021).
PM Imran Khan condemned the killing and said he was personally overseeing the investigation and that those guilty would be punished.
“The horrific vigilante attack on a factory in Sialkot and the burning alive of the Sri Lankan manager is a shameful day for Pakistan,” he said in a message on Twitter.
Television footage showed crowds of hundreds of people on the streets of Sialkot, in the heart of Pakistan’s most populous industrial district where most of the country’s export industry is located.
Underscoring the shock caused across the political establishment, Pakistan’s powerful military also issued a statement condemning the “cold-blooded murder.”
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