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May 14, 2022

The Pakistan Daily

PTI changes Sialkot rally venue after police crackdown

SIALKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced to change the venue of the public rally to VIP ground after a police crackdown on party workers and the arrest of Usman Dar. PTI Punjab President Shafqat Mahmood, while addressing a press conference with other party leaders, said that their peaceful party workers were tortured by police and claimed that police action was launched on directions of Khawaja Asif. The former minister strongly condemned arrests of PTI leaders and workers and demanded their immediate release and reiterated that rally will be held in the city no matter what. The PTI leader said that

December 14, 2021

Hamza Azhar Salam

How toxic masculinity breeds violence in Pakistan

You’ll never hear about a mob of women taking to the streets and exerting violence in order to pressurise the state to accept their demands.  This is because violence in Pakistan is primarily a masculine construct.  Our country is full of “masculine” men with egos so fragile that they wouldn’t think twice before committing murder that too in the most gruesome way possible.  In Sialkot, a Sri Lankan manager was beaten to death, his body was burnt and men in the mob found it wise to take selfies beside the burning carcass.  While we explore religious and political themes in

December 9, 2021

Khadija Mughal

Pakistan plays into the hands of the TLP, again (Opinion)

The horrific Sialkot lynching has been linked to the Tehrik-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), both ideologically and operatively. This is the natural outcome of the state succumbing to the TLP yet again. After months of protests by the formerly banned political party, TLP, the Pakistani government decided to release its detained chief, Saad Hussain Rizvi. The government initially held its ground, but finally gave in and released the ameer of TLP early on Thursday, November 18. Rizvi was taken into custody seven months ago, on April 12, 2021, under the MPO Ordinance 1960. According to the MPO (Maintenance of Public Order) Ordinance,

December 8, 2021

The Pakistan Daily

Sialkot incident: Audit of factories cancelled by foreign companies

After the death of Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, the victim of a lynch mob in Sialkot, the arrival of foreign audit teams visiting international standard factories in the industrial city has started to be postponed. According to the Urdu News report, Ali Anwar, chief executive officer of Nizam Sons Private Limited Garments Company, said: An audit team of our company was to come from Sri Lanka. He has apologized for coming on Monday.  Ali Anwar went on to say, “Not only that, but one of our employees had to arrive from Jordan on Tuesday. They are working to international standards,

December 7, 2021

The Pakistan Daily

Culprits behind lynching of Sri Lankan national won’t be spared, PM Khan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday once again assured that the culprits behind lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara won’t be spared. PM said this while addressing a condolence reference in honour of the Sri Lankan national Priyantha Diyawadana Kumara at the Prime Minister’s Office. The prime minister said that the government would not spare anyone found using the religion and resorting to violence in the name of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) from now on. Imran Khan expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased Priyanth Kumara and the Sri Lankan government. The PM said, “Holy Prophet Muhammad

December 7, 2021

The Pakistan Daily

Sri Lankan govt to pay Rs 2.5 million to the family of Priyantha Kumara

Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers have approved a grant of 2.5 million rupees to be paid to the family of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, the victim of a lynch mob in Sialkot. According to the details, the grant, proposed by the labour minister, will be provided to Diyawadana’s wife and children on a humanitarian basis by the Employees’ Welfare Fund of the Bureau of Foreign Employment. The grant is being paid considering Diyawadana’s “extensive contribution to the Sri Lankan economy over a period of eleven years as a migrant worker”, the statement said. The 48-year-old was tortured, beaten and kicked to

December 6, 2021

The Pakistan Daily

Sialkot incident won’t affect Pak-SL ties: Sri Lankan envoy

ISLAMABAD: Sri Lankan High Commissioner Mohan Vijay Vikrama has said that the Sialkot tragedy is a murder and Pakistan took prompt action. Talking to the media on Monday, he said that he believed the victim family would get justice. “The Sialkot tragedy will not affect the relations between Pakistan and Sri Lanka,” he added. He also expressed his satisfaction over the steps taken by the Pakistan government, appreciating the steps taken for arresting the accused. PTI leader Arshad Dad said that the Pakistani nation is grieved at the Sialkot incident. “The Pakistan government considers Sri Lanka very close to it.

December 5, 2021

Raja Furqan Ahmed

Pervaiz Khattak justifies murder of Sri Lankan manager in Sialkot

ISLAMABAD: The Defence Minister of Pakistan Pervaiz Khattak while justifying the murder of Srilankan Manager, Priyantha Kumara who was brutally murdered by a violent mob in Sialkot, said kids do such things in the passion which doesn’t mean things are bad. Khattak while speaking to the media said mob lynching and the brutal murder of Priyantha Kumara, is a very normal thing, particularly when one is young, emotional and a Muslim. Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that on behalf of the Nation, he wants to salute the moral courage and the bravery of the colleague of the deceased

December 5, 2021

The Pakistan Daily

Sialkot incident: 6 more primary suspects arrested, raids ongoing to find others

SIALKOT: The Punjab police on Sunday identified and arrested six more of the main alleged culprits involved in the lynching of 49-year-old Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara in Sialkot over blasphemy allegations. The FIR was registered against 900 workers of Rajco Industries on the application of Uggoki Station House Officer (SHO) Armaghan Maqt under sections 302, 297, 201, 427, 431, 157, 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code and 7 and 11WW of the Anti-Terrorism Act. The applicant admitted that the protesters had slapped, kicked, punched and hit Kumara with rods in his presence, and dragged him out of the

December 4, 2021

The Pakistan Daily

Wife of Priyantha Kumara pleads for justice

ISLAMABAD: The grieving wife of Priyantha Kumara who was brutally killed in Sialkot has pleaded for justice for her slain husband from both Pakistani and Sri Lankan leaders. “I got to know about the brutal murder of my husband from the news, later I saw this on the internet as well. He was a very innocent man” she said while speaking to BBC. “I request leaders of Sri Lanka and Pakistan to do justice for my husband and two children, by bringing the perpetrators to justice” she went on to say. Meanwhile, Ministers Namal Rajapaksa and Prasanna Ranatunga today visited

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