Man killed by enraged mob on blasphemy charges

At a police station in Nankana Sahib, Pakistan's Punjab province, a man convicted of blasphemy was lynched by an enraged mob on Saturday.

According to reports, Muhammad Waris, who was charged with "desecrating the Quran," was arrested at the Warburton Police Station, around 80 kilometres outside Lahore, when an enraged mob stormed the facility through the front gate. According to reports, the mob stripped Waris of his clothes and carried him around the streets before burning his body on fire.

Another video that has surfaced depicts small children inside the police station while glass is shattered and furniture is flipped over. The children are ostensibly members of the crowd.

According to an Al-Jazeera report, Waris was detained in 2019 on a previous blasphemy accusation and remained behind bars until last year. When the police rescued him and took him into custody on Saturday, he was beaten up by those who apparently witnessed him committing a Quran desecration.

Nawaz Waraq, the deputy superintendent of police for Nankana Sahib Circle, and Feroz Bhatti, the house officer at Warburton Station, were both suspended by the Punjab Inspector General of Police Dr. Usman Anwar for failing to stop the mob lynching.

The Punjab IG was reported by the Dawn daily as saying, "No one is allowed to take the law into their hands no matter how influential they are."

According to the news source, there hasn't been a First Information Report (FIR) filed about the incident yet.

According to the Dawn, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded an investigation into the lynching and declared that maintaining law and order was the top priority for the appropriate authorities in charge of that responsibility.

"Sad and risky trend that is still plaguing our society! In order to attain peace and harmony, one must reply with a powerful narrative. We must develop tolerance and peaceful coexistence. Shazia Marri, the Federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety, remarked on Twitter that Pakistan was based on strong ideals that allowed everyone to live freely."

Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, the chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), described the occurrence as "un-Islamic" and "unconstitutional." The Nation quoted Ashrafi as saying that if someone had committed a crime, the court had the authority to punish the accused and that no group, party, or individual had the discretion to pronounce a judgement against anyone.

According to Pakistani law, blasphemy is illegal and is punishable by anything from a fine to the death penalty. International human rights organisations have long criticised the Pakistani government for not doing enough to stop lynchings in the nation that are allegedly motivated by blasphemy. According to a research by the Centre for Research and Security Studies, there have been 1,415 blasphemy allegations and cases in the nation since 1947, and the Dawn reports that 89 people have died as a result.

In a case that drew international outrage in 2021, factory workers in Sialkot lynched and burnt on fire a Sri Lankan engineer. He was charged with blasphemy for reportedly removing certain posters that contained verses from the Quran.

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