Texan Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 An enraged mob tortured a Pakistani Christian couple and incinerated their bodies in a brick kiln in eastern Pakistan on Tuesday after they were accused of burning a Quran, police officials said. The killings, which happened in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab province, was the latest violent outbreak of religious intolerance in Pakistan, where members of minorities are frequently accused of blasphemy. The two victims, Shahzad Masih and Shama Masih, who had four children and were believed to be in their mid-20s, both worked as laborers at a local brick kiln. The accusations against them began after burned pages of the Quran were said to have been found in their trash. On Tuesday, as word spread, the couple was locked up in a room adjacent to the brick kiln by their employer, Yousaf Gujjar, who also had a running dispute with the couple over money. Some accounts in local news media suggested that Gujjar accused them of blasphemy after they refused to repay money he had lent them. Meanwhile, local clerics made incendiary announcements and urged people to gather. Hundreds of people gathered, and witnesses said some in the crowd broke down the door and dragged the couple out. The police said they were tortured and then burned in the kiln. "By the time police arrived, the couple was already dead," Jawad Qamar, the local police chief told local news media outlets. "Their bodies were totally burned." He said a criminal case has been filed against at least 460 people, and 48 people had been arrested. The police were conducting raids to detain more suspects. According to Pakistan's much-debated blasphemy laws, such accusations can be punishable by execution. But more often, blasphemy accusations end up leading to vigilante violence. Rights activists say such accusations are frequently used to settle personal vendettas or to harass religious minorities. Mere criticism of the blasphemy codes has even led to threats and violence. Shahbaz Sharif, the Punjab chief minister, has formed a three-member committee to investigate the latest killings. Also, the police have been ordered to increase security around Christian neighborhoods in Punjab. http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/pakistani-christian-couple-is-tortured-then-burned-to-death-by-angry-mob-616318
Kalia_Test Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 All this for a book? Why such insecurity? Will Nawaz be called the Punjab butcherer? :dontknow:
sticky wicket Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 All this for a book? Why such insecurity? Will Nawaz be called the Punjab butcherer? :dontknow: It is not insecurity over book, it some lumpen who took advantage of pakistan's medieval law to extract money from his workers.
Texan Posted November 5, 2014 Author Posted November 5, 2014 It is not insecurity over book' date=' it some lumpen who took advantage of pakistan's medieval law to extract money from his workers.[/quote'] Exactly.
hhunaeh Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 blasphemy, wow. What a stupid concept, thank god nobody uses such nonsense in india.
hhunaeh Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 It is not insecurity over book' date=' it [b']some lumpen who took advantage of pakistan's medieval law to extract money from his workers. you are absolutely right. lumpen elements.
Kalia_Test Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 It is not insecurity over book' date=' it some lumpen who took advantage of pakistan's medieval law to extract money from his workers.[/quote'] Oh ok...then the insecurity is evident in the blasphemy law I guess
rkt.india Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 The killings, which happened in the town of Kot Radha Kishan in Punjab province, in the town of Kot Radha Kishan :hmmm:
Nash Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 First minority then Ahmedia later shia. I dont know what they are thinking. How can the society become so worst ? what a wrong religion followed by wrong people do to the country. God bless people of pakistan.
randomGuy Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 As people would know in july this year, a seven-year-old and her baby sister were also killed alongside their grandmother. A woman and her two granddaughters belonging to the Ahmadi Muslim minority neighbourhood in Pakistan have died from suffocation after their house was burned down, following an alleged blasphemous post on Facebook of a fellow sect member. http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/560840/20140729/pakistan-mob-blasphemy-facebook.htm#.VFpA1jSUeMI
randomGuy Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjVpEFu7RYQ]Pakistan mob murders Ahmadi mother and two of her granddaughters - YouTube[/ame]
randomGuy Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBz6Xp8HQFU]REPORT: Pakistani mob attacks Ahmadiyya Muslims in Gujranwala, Punjab - YouTube[/ame]
zep1706 Posted November 5, 2014 Posted November 5, 2014 blasphemy' date=' wow. [b']What a stupid concept, thank god nobody uses such nonsense in india. India also has blasphemy laws, although it is not used the same way they do in Pakistan (oppression of minorities). Also there is no mob justice for blasphemy in India. http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1803184/ http://indiankanoon.org/doc/305995/
veer Posted November 6, 2014 Posted November 6, 2014 We need to stop pointing fingers.. We have lot of our own problems that we need to take care of first before we start preaching.
Haarkarjeetgaye Posted November 6, 2014 Posted November 6, 2014 people wanted to go to Pakistan after Modi became PM. In the name of secularism :hysterical:
Texy Posted November 7, 2014 Posted November 7, 2014 The wife was apparently pregnant at the time of the killing. They were burned alive. That's the worst way to die. How much hatred would it take for someone to do burn someone alive. Think about it. Worse than animals.
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