RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa condemned the cold-blooded murder of a Sri Lankan national in a Sialkot factory on Friday and directed all-out support to civil administration in apprehending the perpetrators, citing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
According to the ISPR, the army chief condemned and shamed the cold-blooded murder of Sri Lankan Priyantha Kumara by a mob in Sialkot.
“Such extrajudicial vigilantism cannot be tolerated at any cost,” said the military’s media wing.
COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa also pledged his full support to the civil administration in its efforts to apprehend and prosecute the perpetrators of the heinous crime.
Earlier, Prime Minister Imran Khan called the mob’s burning alive of a Sri Lankan manager at a Sialkot factory a “horrible day for Pakistan” and announced that he would personally oversee the investigation.
The prime minister said in a message on his personal Twitter account that the horrific vigilante attack on a factory in Sialkot and the burning alive of a Sri Lankan manager is a day of shame for Pakistan.
“I am supervising the investigations, and make no mistake, all those responsible will be punished to the full extent of the law,” he said as he announced the arrests.
The condemnation and orders for strict action came just hours after private factory employees tortured and burned their foreign manager to death in Sialkot on Friday.
The tragic incident occurred at a factory on Sialkot’s Wazirabad Road, where a foreign factory manager was brutally tortured with sticks by the workers.
This was not the end of it; the enraged crowd had no mercy and set fire to the severely injured foreign manager, killing him.
