Peshawar: An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf councilor Arif Khan and one other suspect Asad for their involvement in lynching Mashal. Two others namely Sabir and Izhar were acquitted. Mashal Khan was a student of Mass Communication in Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) and he was lynched by […]
Mashal Khan lynching
Mashal Khan’s lynching case verdict to be declared on 16th March, says Anti-Terrorism court on Tuesday.
Mashal Khan was beaten and shot to death on April 13th 2017 for blasphemy; a crime that till date has not been proven. He was a student at Mardan Abdul Wali Khan University majoring in Mass Communication. The horrendous act shook the nation and sparked a heated debate over the misusing of the blasphemy laws […]
Absconding suspect in Mashal Khan case arrested
MARDAN: Police on Thursday arrested Izhar alias Johnny, one of the last few suspects who hitherto remained at large from the Saddar area of the city upon intelligence reports. According to details, Izhar is one of the suspects involved in the lynching of Mashal Khan on April 13 last year on unfounded blasphemy charges. The […]