Pakistan To Probe Blasphemy Trial Killing Of US Citizen
August 1, 2020
1:52 pm
Pakistan has formed a special team to investigate the killing of a Pakistani-American, who was shot dead inside a courtroom during his controversial blasphemy trial.
“A special team has been constituted to investigate the case,” the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday after the U.S. State Department called for justice for the American citizen.
The intellectually disabled Pakistani-American man, Tahir Naseem, was shot on Wednesday in the north-western city of Peshawar as a hearing on blasphemy charges against him was underway.
Tahir who is from Illinois, had been in a Pakistani jail since 2018 on blasphemy charges after he claimed to …
