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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Janjua in Islamabad

Mob storms Pakistan police station and lynches man accused of blasphemy

The Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif
The Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, condemned the incident and ordered an investigation. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

A mob in eastern Pakistan stormed a police station on Saturday, snatched a Muslim man accused of blasphemy from custody and lynched him, in the country’s latest religion-linked killing.

Muhammad Waris, in his mid-30s, was in police custody in Nankana Sahib, in Punjab province, for desecrating pages of the Qur’an.

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