The student then shot the principal on campus, local police chief Zahoor Afridi told Reuters. “Obviously now he is going to say that he (the principal) committed blasphemy. Insulting Islam’s prophet is punishable by death under Pakistani law, and blasphemy accusations stir such emotions that they are difficult to defend against. In a video recorded during the arrest, the student can be heard defending his actions in Pashto, a regional language. In 2011, a bodyguard assassinated Punjab provincial governor Salman Taseer after he called for the blasphemy laws to be reformed.

Source: bd News24 January 23, 2018 07:18 UTC