[DAWN] THE fate of 65-year-old Khalil Ahmed was sealed on the day he was accused of blasphemy. It was his death warrant. He was killed while in police detention hours after he was locked away.Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
A schoolboy, who has not been identified by name, reportedly walked into the cop shoppe and shot Ahmed dead in full view of the officers. What motivated the teenager to commit this cold -blooded murder?
Perhaps he was inspired by the glorification of other murders committed for alleged blasphemy. Or perhaps he was incited by some zealot. The young boy had been growing up watching Mumtaz Qadri, the murderer of governor Salmaan Taseer, being garlanded. Qadri also had a mosque outside the capital named after him, and his larger-than-life portraits adorn certain public places. The young killer might have been told that the same glory awaited him.