Mashal Khan’s death in 2017 inspired thousands of social media tributes and celebrities including Mahira Khan, Mansha Pasha and Fatima Bhutto are still remembering him on his third death anniversary on Monday.
The student activist was lynched because he had been accused of committing blasphemy.
The Raees star shared a picture of Mashal on social media and wrote: “We failed you.”
https://twitter.com/TheMahiraKhan/status/1249700150760570880
Mansha, on the other hand, wrote, “Mashal Khan’s death reminds us of things that remain always true: That voices of reason are often met with loud and violent dissent. That some will justify violence by twisting ur words against you. And that you will be the one to live on, long after they are gone.”
https://twitter.com/manshapasha/status/1249582217459896320
Renowned author Fatima Bhutto took to Instagram to honour Mashal.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-5PMpbBFs4/?igshid=gykpvbyxcnqa
She posted a picture of him, accompanied by a caption that read: “Shaheed Mashal Khan
For the brave and defiant are never forgotten.”
The 26-year-old was stripped, drubbed and shot by a gang made up mostly of students in April 2017. After this brutal torture, Khan was thrown from the second floor of his dormitory at Abdul Wali Khan university in the north-western city of Mardan.
Consequently, the court handed 25 persons jail sentence, five others multiple terms of life imprisonment, sentenced one person to death, while exonerating 26 others.
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