Pakistan, Feb. 24 -- Mob lynching in our part of the world is linked to 'blasphemy,' but now this chilling sport has started claiming people's lives over matters like parking disputes and street crimes. Consider: in June 2024, a robber in Karachi's Ittehad Town was beaten to death by an angry crowd.

In May 2024, mobs lynched another robber in Orangi Town and attempted to kill a Christian man over alleged blasphemy in Sargodha. In 2023, a Sri Lankan general manager of a factory in Sialkot was tortured and burned alive by workers over blasphemy allegations.

In the latest case, a mob in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Galiyat region lynched a watchman after he allegedly killed a young man during a fight over a parking space. The incident took place i...