In a deeply fractured society like Pakistan, with its thick overlay of feudalism, a law of such gravity and sensitivity as blasphemy against the founder of Islam can be lethal, and has been corrupted since its inception.
Source/Credit: The New India Express
By Karamathullah K Ghori | February 14, 2018
Mashaal Khan was a bright, young, 23-year-old activist student of Mardan’s Abdul Wali Khan University when he was lynched, last year in April, on the university campus by an angry mob of fellow students and university staff in broad daylight. The frenzied mob of several hundred was outraged by an alleged blasphemy against the dignity of the Prophet of Islam, said to be committed by Mashaal. Blasphemy against the Prophet is a capital crime in Pakistan. So savage was the act of lynching that the victim’s mother could not find a bone intact on her deceased son’s forehead to kiss him goodbye.
Nothing could be more ironic than silencing, so brutally, an intrepid, outspoken young critic of bureaucratic corruption on the campus of a university dedicated to a stalwart humanitarian and apostle of peace. Khan Abdul Wali Khan wasn’t just a known pacifist himself but he was also the son of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, one of the closest comrades of Mahatma Gandhi. Ghaffar himself was an apostle of ahimsa (non-violence) and was acclaimed as the Sarhadi (Frontier) Gandhi, in deference to his provenance from the then North West Frontier Province of British India, now the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province of Pakistan.
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