Doctor Killed In Pakistan For Alleged Blasphemy
Last month, a doctor working in southern Pakistan was killed by the police in a fake shootout according to news reports. An Islamic cleric alleged that one of Shah Nawaz’s post on Facebook was an insult to Prophet Mohammed. Islamist political parties and extremist Islamic clerics led protests in which mobs attacked police stations and burned police vehicles. One cleric even publicly announced an $18,000 bounty on Nawaz’s head, “declaring that punishment for blasphemy was beheading,” The New York Times reported.
The doctor’s family said that the Facebook post was somebody else’s work since it was on Nawaz’s old Facebook account which had been hacked long ago, Reuters reported. Nawaz, who was in hiding, gave himself up to the police on being assured that he would be able to prove his innocence.
The accused policemen, who allegedly killed Nawaz, were garlanded and showered with rose petals at red-carpet events, according to pictures and videos posted on social media.
In May, a mob led by Islamic extremists killed Lazar Masih, a 74-year-old Christian in Pakistan for allegedly desecrating the Koran. So far this year, eight people accused of blasphemy were killed extrajudicially, primarily by mobs while the police watched, according to the Centre for Social Justice, a Pakistan based human rights group.
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