ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday visited Sri Lankan High Commission and conveyed their condolences to express solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka over the tragic Sialkot incident.
According to a statement, the federal minister called on Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Pakistan Mohan Wijewickrama in Islamabad and informed him that all the main accused involved in the lynching have been arrested.
Fawad also expressed profound regret over the incident and informed the high commissioner about the steps taken by the government after the incident.
The high commissioner said the Sri Lankan government was satisfied with the steps taken by the government of Pakistan and this tragic incident would not affect the relations between the two countries.
The nation was shell-shocked and disgusted when a Sri Lankan national was brutally lynched and his body was set on fire by a mob in Sialkot. The sickening incident outraged the nation as the civil and military leaders denounced it as “horrific” “shameful” and “extra-judicial vigilantism”.
‘Sialkot lynching against teachings of Islam’
Religious scholars from various schools of thought on Tuesday strongly condemned the brutal lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara in Sialkot, calling it “un-Islamic” and “inhumane”.
The Ulema delegation, led by Special Representative to Prime Minister on Interfaith Harmony Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, visited Sri Lankan High Commission to express solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka over the tragic incident.
“It was an inhumane act, and to accuse someone of blasphemy without proof is not in accordance with the Shariah,” said Chairman Council of Islamic Ideology Dr Qibla Ayaz while talking to journalists following their meeting with Sri Lankan High Commissioner Mohan Wijewickrama.
“This tragedy caused anger worldwide as the mob brutally killed a man and later burned his body,” he said, terming the incident against the teaching of the Holy Quran, the Constitution as well as the laws of Pakistan. “The strictest possible legal action must be taken against these miscreants,” Dr Ayaz demanded.
