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A teacher in Pakistan has been stabbed to death by a female colleague and her granddaughters, who believed unconfirmed reports that the victim had offended Muslim Prophet Muhammad, the country’s police announced today.
The two students and the teacher had ambushed Safoora Bibi yesterday at the main entrance of the girls’ school and attacked her with a knife and a stick, officers said.
“She died when she was stabbed in the throat,” said local police official Saghir Ahmed.
The two girls told police that a relative of theirs “had seen in a dream” that the victim had committed blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad, officers said, but added that they were investigating a personal conflict that the main suspect, Umra Aman, had with the victim.
“Aman was her colleague who planned the crime with her two granddaughters studying at the Jamia Islamia Falahul Binaat school,” police said.
The incident took place at the Dera Ismail Khan ultra-conservative school in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on the border with Afghanistan.
The killing is most recently linked to the delicate issue of blasphemy in Pakistan, whose harsh laws are reportedly being used for personal revenge between citizens in other conflicts.
Religious schools known as ‘madrasas’ have served as a lifeline for many poor children in Pakistan, where social services are almost non-existent.
Statistics say 84 people have been charged with blasphemy in the past year alone, and at least three have been killed in self-immolation by mobs on such charges.
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