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Pakistan: Police round up 33 more suspects in Silakot lynching case

Dec 17, 2021, at 09:05 pm

Pakistan police have arrested 33 people, who are the primary suspects, in the lynching of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot city, media reports said on Friday.

Trial of accused in Sri Lankan man's lynching to be held in jail

Dec 12, 2021, at 02:03 am

Sialkot (Pakistan)/UNI: The Punjab government and the prosecution have decided to conduct the trial of the suspects arrested in the brutal lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara in jail.

Murders take place when young people get emotional: Pak Minister defends lynching of Sri Lankan national

Dec 07, 2021, at 11:37 pm

Islamabad: Pakistan's Defence Minister Pervez Khattak has said  "murders take place when young people get emotional" as he defended the lynching of the Sri Lankan national in Sialkot over allegations of blasphemy while stating that it should not be linked to the government's decision to lift the ban on the hardline Islamist outfit, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).

Sialkot lynching: Sri Lankan national's remains sent to Colombo

Dec 06, 2021, at 11:05 pm

Sialkot: The remains of the Sri Lankan national who was lynched by a mob in Pakistan's Sialkot reghion last week over blasphemy allegation has been sent to his nation.

Pakistan: In Sialkot lynching new video shows victim's colleague trying to save Sri Lankan man

Dec 05, 2021, at 10:25 pm

Islamabad/UNI: A new video of Sialkot lynching incident has surfaced showing that a fellow worker had tried to save the victim from the mob.

Sialkot Sri Lankan national lynching: Pakistan police arrest six more suspects

Dec 05, 2021, at 10:23 pm

Sialkot: The Pakistan police have arrested six people for being involved in the lynching of 49-year-old Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara in Sialkot over blasphemy allegations.

Sialkot Sri Lankan national lynching: Two key suspects 'confess' their involvement

Dec 04, 2021, at 10:19 pm

Two key suspects, who were arrested in connection with the killing of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot, have 'confessed' to their involvement in the incident.

Sialkot Lynching: Civil society members demonstrate in Lahore

Dec 04, 2021, at 09:55 pm

Lahore: The civil society group in Lahore city of Pakistan came out on the streets on Saturday to demonstrate against the killing of a Sri Lankan national by a mob on accusation of blasphemy in Sialkot city on Friday.

Shocking: Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa reacts to Sialkot lynching incident

Dec 04, 2021, at 09:19 pm

Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday described the killing of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot region of Pakistan as 'shocking'.

Sialkot lynching: Horror, shame overwhelm Pakistan as the Sri Lankan's killing lays bare its blasphemy barbarism

Dec 04, 2021, at 06:21 am

Islamabad/IBNS: In a chilling case of a vigilante mob justice, a Sri Lankan man was lynched and then set on fire by a marauding crowd at a factory in Pakistan's Sialkot on accusation of blamsphemy, sparking global outrage over the rising incidents of religious fundamentalism in the Islamic nation.

A day of shame for Pakistan: PM Imran Khan reacts to Sialkot lynching

Dec 04, 2021, at 03:30 am

Islamabad: Strongly condemning the mob lynching of a Sri Lankan national in northeast Pakistan's Sialkot over allegations of blasphemy, Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday evening said the "horrific" incident was a "day of shame" for the country.

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