evidence: In another incident of mob violence in Pakistan, a group of people on Thursday torched a police station and lynched to death a man detained there over blasphemy charges. The incident happened in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat district, where the police apprehended a man over the alleged desecration of the Quran. This is the second incident in a month, the other being a mob torching the house of a Christian man alleging blasphemy. The man died later in hospital. Another incident happened in 2022 where a man was stoned to death by a mob over the alleged desecration of the Quran in a remote village. [...] Pakistan made blasphemy punishable by death in 1980 during the military dictatorship of General Muhammad Zia ul-Haq as part of a drive to Islamise the state. Though no one has ever been executed by the state, blasphemy convictions are common in Pakistan, including multiple incidents of mob violence.