Several people in the throng were also observed taking selfies with his lifeless body. He was tortured to death before being charred to death. The late Kumara can be seen being tossed to the ground and hundreds tearing his clothes and severely abusing him in footage that has gone viral on social media. Hundreds of men amassed outside the plant from surrounding neighbourhood, incensed by the blasphemy incident.
Kumara allegedly tore a poster of the hardliner Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on which Quranic verses were inscribed, which bore the name of the last and most contentious Islamic Prophet Muhammad, and threw it in the dustbin.
The recent gruesome lynching of a top Sri Lankan manager of a garment factory in Sialkot district, Priyantha Kumara, an individual belonging to one of the minorities of Pakistan, whose body was torched by alleged supporters of a fundamentalist Islamist party, should not come as a surprise to anyone with even an ounce of acquaintance with world history, so to speak, which attacked the facility in Pakistan’s Punjab province over blasphemy allegations.Ī Punjab Police official told news agency PTI that Mr. Islam, notwithstanding the heat and scrutiny it faces, the gory and loathsome past of intolerance, disapproval, and holocaust, has thrived and treaded since its advent and continues to engage the world, raise eyebrows, and steal the show-geopolitical, diplomatic, social, cultural, and political.