- Three key suspects on the run
Mardan Police on Sunday arrested Bilal Baksh, an employee of Abdul Wali Khan University, wanted for sedating the mob to murder Mashal Khan over non-existent blasphemy allegations. The total number of suspects in police custody for Mashal murder case has reached 34.
According to Mardan DPO Mian Saeed, Bilal yelled slogans for the murder of Mashal Khan, which provoked the mob into the horrific lynching.
While three primary suspects in the Mashal Khan murder case continue to evade arrest. These suspects include university’s employees Maulana Ali and Nawab, and PTI tehsil councillor Arif.
According to police sources, these three suspects dragged Mashal out of the hostel room. One of these three suspects fired at Mashal. A university employee named Anas had earlier been arrested with a gun on him.
On Saturday, police arrested another suspect, a student named Amir, from Tangi tehsil in Charsadda. The suspect was identified in the lynching video that surfaced soon after the horrific killing of Mashal at the hands of the violent mob.
Amir was reportedly a close friend of the main suspect Wajahat, who confessed to the crime before a magistrate in Mardan on April 17 and said he acted on the directions of some employees of the university administration.
Mashal Khan, who was a student of journalism at AWKUM, was lynched by an enraged mob at university premises on April 13 on the false accusations of blasphemy.
