Mardan university takes action against victims; launches probe into 'blasphemous activity' says news from land of pure
In a bizarre move, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan (AWKUM) has decided to probe three students for alleged "blasphemous activity", a notification posted to their website said Friday.
Of the three students named in the notification, one was killed and another severely injured after being brutally assaulted by an enraged mob a day earlier.
The university's notification on a probe into 'blasphemous activities' allegedly committed by three students.
The university's notification on a probe into 'blasphemous activities' allegedly committed by three students.
The notification, dated April 13, did not mention any details of the incident or a condemnation of the student's killing, even though the university's provost, Fayyaz Ali Shah, said it had been issued after the lynching.
"I [the assistant registrar] am directed to notify that ... [an] Inquiry Committee has been constituted to probe into the matter of blasphemous activities carried [out] by [three] students of Department of Journalism," the notification read.
One of Mashal's teachers later told Reuters that he was a passionate and critical student.
“He was brilliant and inquisitive, always complaining about the political system of the country, but I never heard him saying anything controversial against the religion,” the teacher said.