Eight charged over Pakistani liberal student’s murder
10 years agoPakistani activists shout slogans during a protest in Karachi on April 14, 2017, against the killing of student Mashal Khan, who was killed by his classmates. Hundreds of Pakistani students beat to death a classmate known for his liberal views on a university campus in the country's conservative northwest on April 13, police and witnesses said. Mashal Khan, a journalism student, was stripped, beaten, shot, and thrown from the second floor of his hostel at the Abdul Wali Khan university in Mardan, sources at the university said. ASIF HASSAN / AFP
Mashal Khan, a journalism student, was stripped, beaten, shot, and thrown from the second floor of his hostel at the Abdul Wali Khan university in the conservative northwestern town of Mardan on Thursday by a large mob.