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Pakistan mob lynches Sri Lankan factory manager over 'blasphemy', PM Imran Khan calls it 'a day of shame'

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In a grisly incident, a top Sri Lankan executive of a garment factory was lynched and his body burnt by angry supporters of a hardline Islamist party which attacked the facility in Pakistan's Punjab province over blasphemy allegations on Friday, police said. Priyantha Kumara, who was in his 40s, was working as the general manager of the garment factory in Sialkot district, some 100 km from Lahore, a Punjab police official told PTI.