After Sialkot lynching
\nPM Imran, Gen Qamar and others call for ensuring strict punishments to all involved in lynching of foreign national
\n Islamabad
\nPrime Minister Imran chaired a high-level meeting of the country\u2019s civil and military leadership on Monday to review the overall security situation in Pakistan after the brutal mob lynching of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot last week.
\nThe meeting was attended by Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Jawed Bajwa, National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yousuf, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar and other senior military and civil officers. According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, the participants resolved to bring the perpetrators involved in the Sialkot lynching to justice.
\nA mob comprising hundreds of protestors, including the employees of a factory where Priyantha Kumara worked as a manager, had tortured him to death on Friday and later burnt his body over blasphemy allegations.
\nSubsequently, a first information report was registered against 900 workers of Rajco Industries, and scores of suspects have been arrested since then.
\nAccording to the the PMO, the participants of today\u2019s security meeting were of the view that individuals and mobs could not be allowed to take the law into their hands and such incidents could not be tolerated.
\nThe country\u2019s civil and military leadership expressed serious concern over Kumara\u2019s lynching, stressing the need for implementing a comprehensive strategy to curb such incidents and ensuring \u201cstrict punishment\u201d for all the perpetrators, the PMO said. It added that the participants also acknowledged the act of bravery by one of Kumara\u2019s colleagues, Malik Adnan, who was seen confronting a group of angry men in an attempt to save the former in a video of the incident.
\n\u201cMalik Adnan […] endangered his own life to save Priyantha Kumara,\u201d the PMO\u2019s statement said, adding that the participants of the meeting also conveyed their deepest condolences to the family of late Kumara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After Sialkot lynching PM Imran, Gen Qamar and others call for ensuring strict punishments to all involved in lynching of foreign national Islamabad Prime Minister Imran chaired a high-level meeting of the country\u2019s civil and military leadership on Monday to review the overall security situation in Pakistan after the brutal mob lynching of a Sri […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1373,1372,1374,1245,1371],"class_list":{"0":"post-231322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-killings","9":"tag-mob","10":"tag-punishments","11":"tag-sialkot","12":"tag-strategy"},"yoast_head":"\n