ISLAMABAD —
Police say a 52-year-old man arrested for blasphemy was killed by gunmen after being released from jail.
Police officer Mohammad Ayub said Thursday that the bullet-riddled body of Abid Mehmood was found the day before in Taxila, a town about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the capital Islamabad.
He says Mahmood was arrested in 2011 after claiming to be a prophet, but authorities freed him recently after concluding that he was not mentally stable.
Ayub says relatives of the man buried him at the courtyard of his home after residents objected to his burial at a local graveyard.
Under Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws, anyone convicted of insulting Islam or the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) can be sentenced to death. However, people often take the law into their own hands.
No words 🙁
Blasphemy law always uses for the personal and religious conflicts of people in Pakistan.
Blasphemy law makes Pakistan the laughing stock of the world…and unfortunately the results of this law are not funny…
for every one who feels bad, there will be 100,000 people in Pakistan rejoicing on these verdicts of the blasphemy laws. Such is the degrgation of the Pakistani quam.
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