Amid outrage over the mob lynching of a Sri Lankan man in Pakistan, defence minister Pervez Khattak said that the case shouldn’t be linked with the government’s decision to lift the ban on Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a radical party that offered massiveanti-France demurrers, original media reported Speaking on the same, the defence minister also suggested that” murders take place when youthful people get emotional”, according to a report in The Dawn.
The defence minister made the commentary while he was responding to a journalist during a press commerce on Sunday in Peshawar. The journalist had asked whether the Pakistan government- led by Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf, is considering an” effective crackdown”against groups like TLP.
A plant director, Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana was lynched by a mob in Sialkot on Friday. He was indicted of sacrilege. Latterly the mob burned his body. Several horrible videotape clips participated on social media showed a mob beating the victim while chanting taglines against sacrilege.
The incident sparked a countrywide rage and commination with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan calling it”a day of shame”for the country. The payoff has been linked with the members of TLP, still, the group has receded itself from the incident You know the reasons (behind this incident) too. When children. grow up, they come spirited and do effects out of feelings,”Khattar told the intelligencer.”This doesn’t mean’this was the result of that action’,”he also said, adding,”in Sialkot too some youthful men had gathered and indicted Kumara of disrespecting Islam, which led to the” unforeseen”lynching, as per the Dawn report.
Khattak continued and said, indeed he could do commodity wrong in a state of heightened feelings, and similar incidents didn’t mean”Pakistan is going towards destruction Khattak also said boys entering majority are” ready to do anything”and learn with age how to control their feelings..
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