‘Protests to continue until Mashal’s family gets justice’

One more protest against the brutal lynching of Abdul Wali Khan University student Mashal Khan was organised on Tuesday as a large number of citizens belonging to various Pashtun ethnic parties, student groups, civil society and literary organisations gathered outside the Karachi Press Club to demand justice for the victim’s family.

Yasir Kundi, the protest’s organiser, said the demonstration was held in part of the ongoing movement to pressurise the government to arrest the people involved in Mashal’s killing. “Such protests will continue until justice is served”, he said. 

Speakers demanded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to provide justice to the Mashal’s grieving family and introduce strict laws to deter people from taking the law into their own hands.

Participants belonging to the Awami National Party, the Awami National Party-Wali, the Pashtun Students Federation, the Ranrra Development Trust, and the National Youth Organisation held placards in support of Mashal and chanted slogans against his gruesome murder.