LAHORE: Minister of State for Religious Affairs Dr Aamir Liaqat Hussain was mobbed and beaten when he visited Jamia Binoria, a madrassa, in Karachi on Friday to attend funeral prayers for two slain Sunni Muslim scholars, police and witnesses said. The state minister was rescued by dozens of paramilitary troops and whisked away in an armoured personnel carrier from the Binoria seminary. He was bleeding from the nose and his face was swollen. When he arrived at the seminary in his official car he was seized by a section of the crowd estimated at around 15,000. He was manhandled and locked up in a room on the premises, witnesses said. The incident came a day after senior Sunni scholar Mufti Atiqur Rehman was gunned down in his vehicle while two of his companions were injured and one of them died in hospital on Friday. About 15,000 mourners who had gathered for the funeral prayers outside the seminary shouted slogans against the minister and provincial government.