- Students can be seen outside Mashal’s room in one of new videos
Two new videos have surfaced in the murder case of Mashal Khan, shedding further light on the circumstances in which the student of the Abdul Wali Khan University of Mardan was lynched by an angry mob which accused him of blasphemy.
In one of the video, the students can be seen gathering outside the room of Mashal. An armed police officer can also be seen. The second video is apparently shot after the incident in which a person can be seen delivering a speech. Arrests of few more suspects are also expected after the surfacing of these videos.
In a previous video, a crowd was seen shouting slogans and vowing not to tell the police the name of the person who shot the 23-year-old student. Mashal was a student of mass communication at the Abdul Wali Khan University and was lynched by the mob on April 13 which had accused him of blasphemy.
A total of 33 suspects have been arrested so far in the case. Various political figures and civil society members strongly condemned the murder, with the National Assembly demanding of the government to award exemplary punishment to culprits. On April 16, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar took suo moto notice on the incident.
On Saturday, the police arrested Amir Khan, another suspect in the lynching case, in Tangi tehsil of Charsadda after being identified in one of the videos that surfaced soon after the horrific killing. Reportedly, Amir was a close friend of the main suspect who confessed to the crime before a magistrate in Mardan on April 17.
