Pak man to hang for blasphemy murder

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced one person to death and five others to life imprisonment for lynching a student accused of blasphemy. Last April, Mashal Khan, 23, was stripped, beaten and shot by a gang of mostly students before being thrown from the second floor of his dorm at the Abdul Wali Khan University in the northwestern city of Mardan. An additional 25 people were given three-year sentences.