Hundreds of Villagers in Swabi Come out in support of Mashal Khan

[Khan_21]

 

[Musafir117]

May this voice get louder and louder.

 

[hussain0216]

Out of interest how did he attack Islam?

 

[Dark-Destroyer]

Out of interest how did he attack Islam?

There isn't any evidence to suggest blasphemy as per the KP police IG and chief minister KP...

 

[Super Falcon]

Few forces creating dramas and miss use the name of this law kill innocent people and show how this law can be missused so law should be withdrawn hope we should keep the balance of right or wrong I support the law for who ever do it Dilebretly but I'm against those who miss use the law

 

[RealNapster]

Kill all mullas. No room for mulla terrorism in Pakistan.

ANP student wing can be anything but not Mullah Ideology. It's just amazing that the mistakes of a random person can cause troubles for "Mullah's" here in Pakistan from a Person who is not even living in Pakistan.

One out of 3 doctor's in Pakistan are Fake. So what you want us to do to them ? Kill them all ? or just remove those who are defaming this Profession ? do think.

P.s : Even females came out to show their support for Mashal khan. "can be seen in the video". I do agree our society is in very bad conditions. but still, it's not completely doomed. We still have chance to survive. (if we care to survive)
@Turingsage , @Khanate

 

[American Pakistani]

ANP student wing can be anything but not Mullah Ideology. It's just amazing that the mistakes of a random person can cause troubles for "Mullah's" here in Pakistan from a Person who is not even living in Pakistan.

One out of 3 doctor's in Pakistan are Fake. So what you want us to do to them ? Kill them all ? or just remove those who are defaming this Profession ? do think.

P.s : Even females came out to show their support for Mashal khan. "can be seen in the video". I do agree our society is in very bad conditions. but still, it's not completely doomed. We still have chance to survive. (if we care to survive)
@Turingsage , @Khanate

Sir, please tell me who has injected the nonsense into the minds of youth?

You are free to have your opinion but I still believe mullas belonging to ttp, lej, Lal mosque should be annihilated without any trials.

 

[FlyingAce]

About time State needs to send a Strong Message by Sending the Cases of Cold Blooded Murderer of a Innocent Man to Military Courts! This is Religious Terrorism, & this needs to be soughted out at all levels.

 

[Devil Soul]

Men, women protest lynching, lay wreaths on Mashal’s grave
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Protesters gather at a bazaar in Swabi on Sunday. — Dawn


SWABI/MARDAN: A large number of men and women on Sunday hit the dusty streets of Zaida town of Swabi on the ‘Soyam’ of Mashal Khan, a young graduate of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM), who was lynched by a mob on the campus last Thursday.


Protesters from Mashal Khan's village chant slogans against the student's murder.


They chanted slogans such as “Begunah, Begunah (innocent)” “Mashal Khan Begunah” while passing through the narrow streets. Family members, residents, political workers and representatives of civil society groups participated in the march which was taken out from the hujra (guesthouse) of the deceased’s family. Students of Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, also visited Mashal’s hometown.

Floral wreaths were placed on the grave of Mashal, who was a student of Journalism and Mass Communication Department. People thronged the hujra of the bereaved family, offered their condolences and expressed solidarity with them.

It was probably for the first time that a large number of women covering their faces with traditional shawls participated in a mourning procession in the area that turned into a public meeting at the Zaida Chowk.

Mardan police arrest seven more suspects in the case
Addressing the participants, Pakhtunkhwa Ulasi Tehreek president Dr Said Alam Mehsud demanded to conduct the trial of Mashal’s killing incident in the military court. He said that his organisation had examined the case which led to the incident and met the officials and staff of the university. He claimed that initial information and inquiry proved that Mashal was not involved in alleged blasphemy. He said that Mashal had questioned fee structure of AWKUM and showed complete record to the academia and students that the University of Peshawar and other universities were charging lower fee than their varsity.

Mr Mehsud said that Mashal had highlighted genuine problems of the university, including unavailability of the vice-chancellor. He said that Mashal was a brilliant student and had been criticising the elements who were harming the environment of the campus. “These were the reasons for which he was lynched,” he said.

Dr Khadim Hussain, managing director, Baacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation, said that blasphemous material was not found in his hostel room. He added that the victim’s Facebook account was visited by thousands of people and intelligence agencies, but did not retrieve objectionable material.

Meanwhile, Awami National Party provincial president Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, PM’s adviser Amir Muqam, PPP’s spokesperson Farhatullah Babar, its Senator Rubina Khalid and central information secretary Faisal Karim Kundi and MPA Nighat Orakzai also visited Mashal’s house and offered ‘fateha’. They condemned the brutal killing of Mashal.

The PPP delegation condoled with Mashal’s father and family on behalf of former president Asif Ali Zardari, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and the entire party over the brutal and heinous murder of his son. The delegation also included KP PPP president Humayun Khan. They also laid a flower wreath on Mashal’s grave.

On the occasion, Mr Babar said that murder of Mashal was an act of terror in the name of religion. He said that all sections of society, including parliament and other institutions, would have to play their role to stop such heinous crimes from happening in the garb of blasphemy.

In Mardan, the police on Sunday claimed to have arrested seven more suspects in the lynching of Mashal, taking the number of arrested suspects to 20.

DSP Ikhtiraz Khan said that two of the seven suspects who were arrested on Sunday were nominated in the FIR while five others were held on the identification of already detained persons.

It may be recalled that officials of Sheikh Maltoon Town police station had registered FIR against 20 people soon after the incident. Eight suspects were presented in the Anti-Terrorist Court, Mardan, on Saturday. They were remanded in the custody of police for four days.

However, seven suspects were produced in the court of magistrate on special duty on Sunday who gave them on one-day remand to the police, the DSP said. He said that six employees of the university had also been identified through video footages and other sources who, he claimed, were allegedly involved in the incident. He added that three of the employees had been arrested so far.

Some of the arrested suspects were identified as Mohammad Ajmal Mayar, Nasir Afridi, Munsif, Farhan, Wajahat, Imran, Shoaib, Najeeb, Imad Khan, Haneef, Suhrab, Mujeeb and Anees.

He said that they had received the postmortem report which had confirmed some bullet injuries on body of the victim. Inspector General of Police Salahuddin Mehsud was briefed by Mardan DIG Mohammad Alam Shinwari and other officials on the developments during a meeting on Sunday.

 

[Khanate]

Sir, please tell me who has injected the nonsense into the minds of youth?

You are free to have your opinion but I still believe mullas belonging to ttp, lej, Lal mosque should be annihilated without any trials.

Can you kindly explain how your "kill all mullah" approach will lead to cleansing of the minds of youth? If anything, it encourages violence. A simpler solution is to strengthen law enforcement and take politics out of policing, something KPK is doing.

 

[Devil Soul]

 

[padamchen]

It is gratifying to see Pakistani society push back.

But I wonder, did Pakistan see the same sort of protests when a non Muslim was lynched for blasphemy?

The cases where Christians were lynched, I do not remember seeing such protests. Though I admit I do not follow these things too closely.

But it does seem to me that his tribal roots and his religion have more to do with this outpouring than anything else.

@salarsikander @Spring Onion

 

[Devil Soul]

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[Well.wisher]

Kill all mullas. No room for mulla terrorism in Pakistan.

You're right.

 

[salarsikander]

It is gratifying to see Pakistani society push back.

But I wonder, did Pakistan see the same sort of protests when a non Muslim was lynched for blasphemy?

The cases where Christians were lynched, I do not remember seeing such protests. Though I admit I do not follow these things too closely.

But it does seem to me that his tribal roots and his religion have more to do with this outpouring than anything else.

@salarsikander @Spring Onion

This is first step. When the people are rejecting the he was killed for wrong reasons. You can say the society is fighting back. Hopefully next time when someone else gets lynched a portion of society will again push back until it reaches a certain threshold whereby an entire culture would reject taking the laws in their own hand.

It well known that blasphemy laws are only misuse against non Muslim minority.

Good to see people rejecting mullah poison and waking up.

He is active Marxist and most of the time these people support atheistism and raise voice against all religion example in infamous F.B page B...... . The gentlemen got involved in a heated debate over religion with university students which led to his death.

Him being active what not still Doe's warrant to his death. You do not kill someone because he rejects your idea or idea that is shared by all. You educate him, if he still goes on to humiliate and insult the idea deliberately, he can then be tried under justice system. Taking law in ones own hand is never really answer to anything