{"id":4484,"date":"2021-12-04T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T10:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2021-12-04T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T10:55:15","slug":"sialkot-tragedy-sri-lankan-pm-confident-pm-imran-khan-will-punish-culprits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sialkot-tragedy-sri-lankan-pm-confident-pm-imran-khan-will-punish-culprits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sialkot tragedy: Sri Lankan PM \u2018confident\u2019 PM Imran Khan will punish culprits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister (PM) Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday expressed shock at the brutal Sialkot lynching of a Sri Lankan national, but expressed confidence in PM Imran Khan\u2019s commitment to punish all those involved.<\/p>\n<p>PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government is a key regional ally to Pakistan, took to Twitter to condemn the horrific Friday incident that saw a mob torture and kill Priyantha Diyawadana, an expat factory manager working in Sialkot, over blasphemy allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShocking to see the brutal and fatal attack on Priyantha Diyawadana by extremist mobs in Pakistan. My heart goes out to his wife and family,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Sri Lanka and her people are confident that PM Imran Khan will keep to his commitment to bring all those involved to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said he is in contact with his Sri Lankan counterpart and has assured him of justice to the victim&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shocking to see the brutal and fatal attack on Priyantha Diyawadana by extremist mobs in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pakistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Pakistan<\/a>. My heart goes out to his wife and family. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SriLanka?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SriLanka<\/a> and her people are confident that PM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImranKhanPTI<\/a> will keep to his commitment to bring all those involved to justice.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mahinda Rajapaksa (@PresRajapaksa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PresRajapaksa\/status\/1467021344348979203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sri Lanka has appreciated Pakistan&#8217;s response towards the incident,&#8221; Qureshi said, adding that the family has also been approached and &#8220;we will satisfy them completely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The incident<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Priyantha Kumara, working as a manager at a private factory in Sialkot, was tortured to death on Friday by a mob after being accused of blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>The gruesome incident was dubbed by Prime Minister Imran Khan as &#8220;a day of shame for Pakistan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Workers of a garment industry, located on Sialkot\u2019s Wazirabad Road, had alleged that the foreigner had committed blasphemy. He was subsequently lynched and his body set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>The mob had also vandalised the factory and blocked traffic, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The brutal murder drew widespread condemnation from senior government functionaries, including the prime minister and president, as well as the military&#8217;s top leadership, who promised to bring all those involved to the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over 100 arrested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, police have arrested more than 100 suspects, including two described as the main accused, and registered a case in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>According to a handout issued by the Punjab police spokesman, a case has been registered under the provisions of the Anti Terrorism Act with the police as complainant.<\/p>\n<p>He said the role of the arrested people involved in the incident is being determined through CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman said all accused involved in the tragic incident would be arrested soon and brought to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister (PM) Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday expressed shock at the brutal Sialkot lynching of a Sri Lankan national, but expressed confidence in PM Imran Khan\u2019s commitment to punish all those involved. PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government is a key regional ally to Pakistan, took to Twitter to condemn the horrific Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,3],"tags":[3062,3061,3059,183,273],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-world","tag-blasphemy","tag-cctv-footage","tag-foreign-minister-shah-mehmood-qureshi","tag-pm-imran-khan","tag-pti-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}