Eight charged over Mashal Khan’s murder
PESHAWAR: Eight Pakistanis who brutally murdered a associate university tyro over his magnanimous views were charged with murder and terrorism on Saturday, probity officials said.
Mashal Khan, a broadcasting student, was stripped, beaten, shot, and thrown from a second building of his hostel during a Abdul Wali Khan university in a northwestern city of Mardan on Thursday by a vast mob.
So distant a sum of 12 people have been arrested over a occurrence and military are sport for some-more suspects.
“Eight students were presented before an anti-terrorism probity in Mardan over murder and severe a command of a state,” open prosecutor Rafiullah Khan told AFP.
Four others were arrested Saturday, Khan said.
Mushtaq Ghani, Information Minister of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, pronounced a supervision had also requested Peshawar High Court to control a legal examine into a incident.
The eccentric Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged that all those concerned in a lynching be brought to justice.
“The state’s contemptible disaster to strengthen Mashal Khan’s right to life has combined good panic and fear among students and academia. Unless all those who played any partial in Mashal’s heartless murder are brought to justice, such atrocity will usually spread,” it said.
At his wake on Friday, Khan’s father pronounced he hoped his son’s murder would “evoke fulfilment among people that murdering an trusting is a sin”.
-AFP
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