The Punjab police have arrested eight more men for murdering and burning the body of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara over alleged blasphemy charges in Sialkot. The accused were presented in an anti-terrorism court Wednesday. They have been remanded into police custody for 15 days. According to the police, the suspects were identified with the help of CCTV footage and mobile data. So far, 139 suspects including 34 prime suspects have been arrested by the police. Earlier, the Gujranwala anti-terrorism court approved the 15-day physical remand of 26 suspects, arrested for their “central role” in the lynching. The Sialkot District Police Officer (DPO) said that Punjab Ch.
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Religious scholar Mufti Tariq Masood has termed the lynching of Priyantha Kumar in Sialkot a “shame” for the whole nation. He recited a Hadith that Holy Prophet (PBUH) has said, “Whoever kills a person from among Ahl Adh-Dhimmah [non-Muslims living in an Islamic state with legal protection], will not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though one can smell its fragrance from a distance of forty years.” In many such cases in our country, it is seen that often people are trying to personal score using the name of blasphemy. “First of all, there s a need to define blasphemy in the blasphemy laws,” he told SAMAA TV anchorperson Kiran Naz. “As per my knowledge, the argument flared up wh.