According to the provincial interior minister, Ziaul Hassan, a government investigation concluded that Nawaz was killed shortly after he gave himself up to authorities in a fake encounter engineered by the security forces. There was no shootout with armed men as police had claimed, Hassan told reporters at a news conference in the southern port city of Karachi.
Hours after Nawaz was shot and his body was handed over to his family, a mob snatched it from Nawaz's father and burned it. Accusations of blasphemy, and sometimes even just rumours, can spark riots and mob rampages in Pakistan.
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