Police say a Pakistani student shot and killed his school principal on Monday, in a dispute over the student skipping classes to attend rallies supporting the country’s strict blasphemy laws. The student then shot the principal on campus, local police chief Zahoor Afridi told Reuters. “Obviously now he is going to say that he (the principal) committed blasphemy. Insulting Islam’s prophet is punishable by death under Pakistani law, and blasphemy accusations stir such emotions that they are difficult to defend against. There was widespread outrage across Pakistan in April 2017 when student Mashal Khan was beaten to death at his university in Mardan following a dormitory debate about religion.

Source: Punch January 23, 2018 11:26 UTC