ISLAMABAD:Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday announced Tamgha-e-Shujaat for a man who tried his utmost to shelter and save Sri Lankan manager Priyantha Diyawadana Kumara from the vigilante mob in Sialkot.
In a Twitter messaged today, PM Khan wrote: “On behalf of the nation I want to salute moral courage and bravery of Malik Adnan who tried his utmost to shelter and save Priyantha Diyawadana from the vigilante mob in Sialkot, endangering his own life by physically trying to shield victim. We will award him Tamgha-e-Shujaat.”
A video showed that Malik Adnan tried to save Diyawadana at the Sialkot factory but the mob tortured him to death. Mr Malik made repeated requests to the mob to leave Priyantha, but his request was turned down ruthlessly.
Priyantha Diyawadana Kumara, a manager of a factory in Sialkot, was tortured to death by a mob on blasphemy charge on Friday and later his body torched. Kumara’s wife had earlier requested the leaders of Sri Lanka and Pakistan to ensure justice by bringing the perpetrators involved in her husband’s killers to justice.
Later on, Prime Minister Imran Khan has called Sri Lanka’s president and assured him of providing justice over the lynching of a Sri Lankan factory manager by a mob in Sialkot. Khan tweeted on December 4 that he had spoken to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by telephone to “convey our nation’s anger and shame” over the death of Priyantha Kumara, an export manager at a garment factory who was abducted by a mob, tortured, and publicly burned to death for alleged blasphemy.
A first information report has been registered against 900 workers of a garment factory in Sialkot for killing their Sri Lankan-national general manager and burning his body, while the Sialkot police have arrested 235 people, including those who tortured Priyantha Kumara and recorded videos.