An Important Verdict.

The lynching of Mashal Khan was an incident that shook the country's moral compass at its core. Pakistan changed forever the day the 23-year-old student from Abdul Wali Khan University was killed by vigilante student forces. For those who might have lost faith in goodness after this tragedy, there is still something redeemable. Rarely are vigilante false accusers of blasphemy given due punishment for inciting murder, but in this case, it seems that they might just be brought to task. A Peshawar Anti-Terrorism Court is due to give its decision on the 16th March against four persons accused of inciting murder and causing the lynching of Mashal Khan.

The accused were arrested last year after being on the run since the lynching incident occurred. According to prosecution, the four accused in question had played a key role in the lynching of Mr Mashal. It is pertinent to note that some of the accused were not students at the university, which makes their presence at the time of the crime more...