Car on fire are pictured as demonstrators gather at a police station which was set on fire after thousands of people mobbed it demanding that officers hand over a man accused of burning the Koran, in Charsadda, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on November 29, 2021. (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP) (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)
5,000-strong lynch mob torch police stations in Pakistan and demand cops hand over blasphemy suspect so they can ‘burn him alive like he burnt the Holy Koran’
Furious mob attacked police in northern Pakistan after man burned a Koran
5,000-strong crowd told cops to hand the man over so they could burn him alive
When police refused, mob burned the police station, 30 cars, and checkpoints
Blasphemy is punishable by death in Muslim-majority Pakistan, where even allegations of wrongdoing can spark riots and lynchings
By Chris Pleasance, Daily Mailonline, November 30, 2021;
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A 5,000-strong mob has burned multiple police stations in Pakistan while demanding officers hand over a man accused of torching a copy of the Koran.
The crowd gathered outside the police station in the town of Charsadda, in northern Pakistan, late Sunday after learning cops were holding a man accused of blasphemy.
Thugs demanded police hand the man over ‘so we can burn him alive the way he burned the Koran’, before settling light to the station and surrounding checkpoints.
Mob burn police station after man accused of blasphemy is arrested
CHARSADDA, PAKISTAN – NOVEMBER 29: A view of the scene after protesters set fire to a police station and nearby vehicles in Charsadda over alleged Quran desecration, in Pakistan on November 29, 2021. Protestors gathered in large numbers and uprooted the gate of Mandani police station. Charsadda Other police checkpoints in the area were set on fire by the protestors. Police uses aerial firing, baton charges and tear gas to disperse angry people. (Photo by Hussain Ali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Police were attacked by a mob in northern Pakistan demanding they hand over a ‘mentally impaired’ man accused of burning a copy of the Koran
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Around 5,000 people gathered late Sunday before attacking the local police station, causing officers to flee overnight
2,000 people were still at the police station on Monday morning, as local officials said troops have been called in to restore order
‘The mob stormed the station asking to hand over the man to them so they could burn him alive like he burnt the Holy Koran,’ district police chief Asif Bahadur said.
The identity and religion of the accused has not been disclosed by police, Bahadur said, but described him as ‘mentally impaired’.
‘The motive behind burning the copy of the Holy Quran is still unknown but we are investigating.’
No officers were hurt in the attacks, which forced the police to summon troops to restore order, local officer Asif Khan said.
Khan said officers foiled an attempt by the mob to lynch the detainee and the police moved him to another district.
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A man takes pictures of a burning police station in Pakistan after it was attacked by a mob overnight demanding cops hand over a blasphemy suspect
Police have not released the suspect’s name or said what they believe the motive for the burning was, but have said the man is ‘mentally impaired’
The main police station in Charsadda was burned along with several dozen cars, with local police checkpoints also destroyed
He did not disclose the name of the man, saying officers were still investigating and the suspect was arrested a day ago.
Khan said officers initially resisted but fled after thousands of demonstrators attacked the police buildings.
He said police avoided the use of force to prevent casualties among demonstrators.
The situation in Charsadda was normal Monday, he said, and law enforcement was seeking to arrest people linked to the attacks.
Blasphemy carries the death penalty in Pakistan, where mere allegations of the offense are often enough to provoke mob violence.
International and domestic rights groups say accusations of blasphemy have often been made maliciously to intimidate religious minorities and settle personal scores.
A Christian couple was lynched then burnt in a kiln in Punjab in 2014 after being falsely accused of desecrating the Koran.
Police arrest people who continued to protest on Monday, after saying they moved the suspected blasphemer to another station due to fears for his safety
Pakistani policemen baton-charge crowds of angry demonstrators as they continued to demand the release of the alleged blasphemer today
A former Punjab governor Salman Taseer was gunned down by his bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, in Islamabad in 2011 over his call for blasphemy law reform.
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman and a labourer from central Punjab province, was convicted of blasphemy in 2010 and was on death row until her acquittal in 2018, which prompted days of violent Islamist demonstrations.
She and her family later fled the country for Canada.
In 2017, a group of students at the Abdul Wali Khan University in the northwestern city of Mardan attacked and killed another student, Mohammad Mashal, after accusing him of sharing blasphemous content on Facebook.
The country has frequently been paralysed in recent years by anti-blasphemy protests waged by the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan party.
Demonstrations are often linked to the publishing of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed by a French satirical magazine.
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