A Class 12 student gunned down his school principal on Monday over alleged blasphemy in Pakistan’s restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. Sareer Khan was killed by Fahim Ashraf who was later arrested with a gun, district police chief Zahoor Afridi said. Meanwhile, college students and relatives of the accused blocked a road and disrupted traffic but the district administration pacified them. Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Pakistan and people have been killed in the past on mere suspicion. Mashal Khan, a university student, was lynched last year by a mob of fellow students in Charsadda over alleged blasphemy, which was never proved by the police.

Source: Hindustan Times January 22, 2018 16:07 UTC