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| Mardan university takes action against victims; launches probe into 'blasphemous activity' |
| 2017-04-15 |
| [DAWN] In a bizarre move, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan (AWKUM) has decided to probe three students for alleged "blasphemous activity", a notification posted to their website said Friday.Of the three students named in the notification, one was killed and another severely injured after being brutally assaulted by an enraged mob a day earlier. The notification, dated April 13, did not mention any details of the incident or a condemnation of the student's killing, even though the university's provost, Fayyaz Ali Shah, said it had been issued after the lynching. "I [the assistant registrar] am directed to notify that ... [an] Inquiry Committee has been constituted to probe into the matter of blasphemous activities carried [out] by [three] students of Department of Journalism," the notification read. "Further, the mentioned students are hereby rusticated and their entry into the premises of the University (all campuses) is banned until further orders," it added. When asked why the school administration had also rusticated the dear departed student, Shah said: "it is a holy manal error which is being revised". Horrific attack 23-year-old AWKUM student Mashal had been killed and another student, Abdullah, seriously injured a day earlier by a vigilante mob for allegedly "publishing blasphemous content online", local police had said Thursday. No case had been filed against the two students prior to the incident and police had not been investigating the two on blasphemy charges. The mob instead seems to have been incited by rumours circulating among the university's student body. An eyewitness said the mob had first surrounded Abdullah and forced him to recite verses from the Holy Koran, then proceeded to beat him bloody. The police, when alerted, reached the site of the incident and rescued Abdullah, after which the mob turned on Mashal, who was in his hostel at the time, the eyewitness said. Mashal was first shot, then beaten with wooden planks till he departed this vale of tears. The mob had also wanted to burn his body before police intervened, a senior police official had said. The incident had occurred within the university premises. The campus was shut down indefinitely and its hostels vacated to avoid a further escalation of violence. One of Mashal's teachers later told Rooters that he was a passionate and critical student. "He was brilliant and inquisitive, always complaining about the political system of the country, but I never heard him saying anything controversial against the religion," the teacher said. Funeral prayers for Mashal were offered early Friday in Kalu Khan, Swabi District, where he was laid to rest. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 No wonder Muslims & Leftists get along so well - they think the same way. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-04-15 04:50 |