Pakistan mob lynches Sri Lankan factory manager over 'blasphemy', PM Imran Khan calls it 'a day of shame'

The Sri Lankan allegedly tore a poster of the hardline Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) in which Quranic verses were inscribed and threw it in the dustbin.

Lahore: In a grisly incident, a top Sri Lankan executive of a garment factory was lynched and his body burnt by angry supporters of a hardline Islamist party which attacked the facility in Pakistan's Punjab province over blasphemy allegations on Friday, police said.

Priyantha Kumara, who was in his 40s, was working as the general manager of the garment factory in Sialkot district, some 100 km from Lahore, a Punjab police official told PTI.

"Mr Kumara allegedly tore a poster of the hardline Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) in which Quranic verses were inscribed and threw it in the dustbin. The poster of the Islamist party was pasted on the wall adjoining the office of Kumara. A couple of factory workers saw him removing the poster and spread the word in the factory," the official said.