2 men get lifer over student killing in Pakistan

A court in northwestern Pakistan has sentenced to life imprisonment two men convicted of involvement in the killing of Mashal Khan, a university student who was beaten and then fatally shot by a mob in 2017 after being falsely accused of blasphemy.

Peshawar: Two men were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Pakistani court after they were found guilty of involvement in the killing of a university student, Mashal Khan.

23-year-old Mashal was beaten and then fatally shot by a mob in 2017 after being falsely accused of blasphemy.

The two men - Arif Khan, a local leader of Pakistan's ruling party led by former cricket star Imran Khan and Asad Khan - were in court in Peshawar for the sentencing.

Initially 61 people were charged with a variety of offences and 57 people were handed varying sentences in the case, out of them many are appealing the verdicts.

The death of Mashal was caught on video that later circulated on social media.