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Pervez Khattak, Pakistan's defence minister, has offered an odd justification for the heinous mob lynching of a Sri Lankan man in Sialkot last week. When young people become passionate, "murders happen," Khattak said, adding that the tragedy should not be related to the Imran Khand government's decision to relax the ban on the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
On December 3, hundreds of furious Muslims in eastern Pakistan hanged and publicly torched a Sri Lankan sports equipment manufacturing manager's body for suspected blasphemy. Factory employees accused Priyantha Kumara of defacing posters bearing the name of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. According to a media report on Sunday quoting his post-mortem report, nearly all of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana's bones were crushed and his corpse was 99 percent burned in the terrible lynching event in Pakistan's Punjab region.