Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Saturday approved the summary of a judicial inquiry into the lynching of a student at Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, on Thursday.
KP government’s spokesman Mushtaq Ghanisaid, “The chief minister has signed a summary of the Home and Tribal Affairs department seeking judicial probe of the incident,”
Ghani added that after the approval the summary will be sent to the chief justice of Peshawar High Court to form judicial committee.
“As soon as the chief justice formed the committee, it will start probe,” he said.
On Friday, during a session chaired by Deputy Speaker Dr Mahar Taj Roghani, the chief minister responded to criticism by lawmakers who condemned Mashal Khan’s brutal death at the hands of a mob of students merely on an allegation of blasphemy.
Khattak told the KP assembly that no evidence was found to suggest Mashal Khan committed blasphemy and said, “The mobile phone record of the victim has been checked by the police but there was nothing against Islam.”
“The government has already decided to conduct a judicial inquiry into this heinous crime,” he had said and added that such an incident should not have occurred and the government was worried about it.