ISLAMABAD : Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has strongly condemned the ‘horrific vigilante attack’, on a Sri Lankan , calling it a day of shame for Pakistan.
A mob of employees at a garment factory in eastern Pakistan tortured and killed their Sri Lankan manager on Friday and set his body on fire, authorities said on Friday.
“The factory workers tortured the manager,” said a provincial government spokesman Hassan Khawar. “A total of 50 people so far have been identified and arrested.”
“The burning alive of Sri Lankan manager is a day of shame for Pakistan,” Premier Khan said.
Reacting to the attack on Twitter, the PM said that he was personally overseeing the investigations, ensuring that those responsible will be punished ‘with full severity of the law’.
A police official in the eastern town of Sialkot, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case, said investigators believed the attackers had accused the manager of blasphemy.
‘ Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry has received reports of an alleged incident of torture and burning of body of a Sri Lankan in Sialkot ,Pakistan,’ a statement from the ministry said on Friday.
The Sri Lanka High Commission in Islamabad is in the process of verifying the details of the incident from the Pakistan authorities.
Sri Lanka expects that the Pakistan authorities will take required action to investigate and ensure justice’.
