[DAWN] A man named Muhammad Saleem filed an application at Lahore's Nishtar Colony cop shoppe on Monday, saying that one of the two men lynched by an angry mob following the twin church blasts on Sunday was his brother Naeem.Speaking to Dawn.com, officials at the Nishtar Colony cop shoppe confirmed that Muhammad Saleem had approached the police to register a murder case against protesters who brutally killed and then torched his brother's body.
According to DawnNews, Muhammad Saleem said his brother worked as a glass cutter and had nothing to do with yesterday's church bombings in Lahore.
From the blogs section: Killing outside churches, lynching in the streets
Following yesterday's attacks on two churches in Lahore's Christian locality, Youhanabad, scores of protesters had taken away two suspects held by the police and lynched them.
The identity of both suspects had not been ascertained till late Sunday night.
Punjab Police IG Mushtaq Sukhera had said after the lynching: "The coppers did attempt to resist but the mob was highly charged. It was not impossible to use force at that time because it could turn the situation ugly and perhaps out of control."
Commenting on the killing, Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
said "Killing someone on the basis of suspicion is inhumane. No one has the right to take the law into their own hands."
He said an order to arrest those involved in the lynching had been issued.
The situation outside Youhanabad remained out of control on Monday as protests against the bombings turned violent. According to latest reports, one person was killed while seven protesters were maimed after mobs clashed with baton-wielding coppers.