It is rumored that the man pulled a religious poster from the wall and threw it in the trash cans. He was then lynched and his body set on fire. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke of a ‘day of shame for Pakistan’.
The event took place on Friday in Sialkot district, 200 kilometers southeast of the capital Islamabad. According to Tahir Ashrafi, a religious scholar and special representative of Prime Minister Khan for religious affairs, the exact circumstances are not clear. The manager was known as ‘very strict’. It is possible that “some factory workers played a religious card to get revenge on the manager,” Ashrafi said. Blasphemy is very sensitive in Pakistan. Even the slightest suggestion of an insult to Islam can provoke protests and incite lynchings.
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