Imran calls Gotabaya, assures justice to lynched Lankan national

Islamabad, Dec 05:
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has assured Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa that there will be no mercy to the mob which lynched Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana over allegations of blasphemy, the President’s office in Colombo said on Sunday.
Khan telephoned Rajapaksa and said that 113 people have been arrested so far, it said. All the videos and information related to the incident have been obtained by the Pakistani security forces, a statement from the President’s office said.
Prime Minister Khan informed President Rajapaksa that Diyawadana, who had served in Pakistan for a long time, had shown a high level of professionalism as a manager. In a shocking incident on Friday, angry supporters of the hardline Islamist party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) attacked a garment factory and lynched its general manager Diyawadana, who was in his 40s, before setting his body on fire over allegations of blasphemy.