LAHORE/ KABIRWALA/ ISLAMABAD: Police arrested 85 suspects, including 15 believed to be main culprits, on Sunday for lynching a mentally deranged man over alleged blasphemy in a town of Khanewal.
A middle-aged man was stoned to death and his body was hung from a tree by a mob for allegedly desecrating a religious book in a remote village in Pakistan’s Punjab province, the police said on Sunday, a gruesome incident that has sparked nationwide outrage.