SWABI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday said those responsible for Mashal Khan’s murder will be given exemplary punishment.
The PTI chief was talking to the family members of Mashal Khan at their home in Swabi while offering his condolence.
1. This morning I condoled with Mashal’s family and was moved by their amazing courage and dignity pic.twitter.com/AkZFdqxyIp
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 18, 2017
PTI chief said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and police will take all steps to bring the killers of the student to justice.
Imran Khan said that no person will be able to level blasphemy allegations after this incident.
2. They made 2 extremely reasonable requests: One: those involved shd be brought to justice so no other family goes through such suffering
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 18, 2017
Khan said that it has proved that it was not the issue of blasphemy but a conspiracy against Mashal Khan.
The culprits of the incident will be punished to set an example for the future, he added.
3. Two: that the University be renamed after Mashal Khan so that his memory will live on.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 18, 2017
Imran Khan said that he is himself a father and knows the pain of the parents of Mashal.
Those involved in the incident belong to PTI or any other party will be brought to justice, Khan said.
I will make every effort possible to fulfill these two requests of Mashal’s family. https://t.co/2uPjlSvV4U
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 18, 2017
Mashal Khan, a journalism student in Abdul Wali Khan University of Mardan, was murdered by an angry mob accusing him of blasphemy.
