In a University campus of Pakistan's Bahawalpur city an another shocking case of radicalisation gone skewed has surfaced from its Punjab province. As per source reports, the shocking incident happened on Wednesday when a third-year student, at Bahawalpur's Government Sadiq Egerton College allegedly fatally stabbed a professor over what he considered "anti-Islam" remarks. The deceased Khalid Hameed is an Associate professor and the head of the English department. He had arrived at the college campus with his son who was parking the vehicle while the professor walked to his office. Professor Hameed was seated inside his office at the college when he was allegedly accosted and attacked with a knife by the student, reports Dawn.

Here it is to be noted that over the arrangements of a 'welcome party' that was to be held on Thursday 21 March the alleged killer - Khateeb Hussain is reportedly a 5th-semester student enrolled in the English department who had sparred with the deceased early that morning for the freshers arriving at the college. The suspected killer objected to the organising of the event as he considered the mingling of male and female students at the function as "un-Islamic". He had held a heated exchange of words with the professor over the issue.

However, the source reports that Waleed Khan, the son of the deceased professor, saw the attacker hiding behind a pillar and then suddenly charging at the professor. “As my father was about to step into his office, the guy attacked him with a knife, hitting him on his head and stomach,” Dawn quotes, citing AFP as the source. The son reportedly added “My father then fell down and I rushed to him; the student held his knife and started shouting 'I have killed him, I had told him that a gender mix reception is against Islam',”.

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To be noted that the attacker was eventually subdued by people on the campus and handed over to the police, along with the murder weapon. He now faces proceedings over the FIR under Pakistan Penal Code's Section 302 (intentional murder) and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. He is remorseless, says the Dawn report, which also adds that the killer skipped the legal way of protest as he believes that "the country's laws are "freeing the blasphemers (gustaakhon)". Murders over alleged blasphemy acts (insult to Islam or the Prophet) - a legacy of the 1980s Zia-ul-Haq regime days - are not a new thing to Pakistan. Punjab governor Salman Taseer was killed by his own bodyguard - Mumtaz Qadri - an elite commando of the Punjab police - over the Guv defending the legal rights of a woman from the minority community convicted on blasphemy charges. 

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