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Pakistani Teen Sentenced to Life for Killing Blasphemy Accused in Court
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34:10Now PlayingIn a chilling demonstration of Pakistan's draconian blasphemy laws, Faisal Khan, a teenage boy barely in his mid-teens, was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Tahir Ahmad Naseem, a 57-year-old Pakistani-American, in a shocking courtroom assassination on July 29, 2020. Khan, who entered the Peshawar Central Prison courtroom and shot Naseem at point-blank range, claimed the Prophet Muhammad had visited him in a dream and explicitly commanded him to commit the murder, shouting angrily that Naseem was an "enemy of Islam." Naseem, a member of the Ahmadiyya religious minority legally unrecognized as Muslims in Pakistan, had been on trial after being accused by Awais Malik, a madrassa student, of claiming to be a prophet following an online conversation and a meeting in a Peshawar shopping mall. At the time of the murder, Khan was celebrated as a heroic defender of Islam by religious fundamentalists, local politicians, and clerics, with numerous lawyers offering to defend him pro bono, reflecting the deeply rooted and volatile religious tensions surrounding blasphemy accusations. The anti-terrorism court, conducting the trial in a juvenile court capacity, sentenced Khan to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of one million Pakistani rupees (approximately 3,600 US dollars), while Naseem's daughter launched an international campaign, petitioning the United Nations and US State Department to intervene and challenge Pakistan's systematically abused blasphemy laws that disproportionately target religious minorities.
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