Separately, a group of leading religious scholars representing various schools visited the Sri Lankan High Commission to condole the killing and condemn the murder. The mortal remains of the Sri Lankan national were sent to Colombo on Monday, while an anti-terrorism court granted physical remand of 26 accused for 15 days for investigation. "Role models are important in the country because people follow them," Khan said, adding, "moral power is greater than physical power." He said the youth would remember the way Adnan stood up to those monsters, who was already nominated for the Tamgha-e-Shujaat award that he would receive on March 23 next year. Khan also praised a factory manager, Malik Adnan, who tried to save the life of the Sri Lankan national, saying it was admirable that a person tried to save another person's life without caring for his own life. Khan said that the business community of Sialkot has collected USD 100,000 for the deceased Sri Lankan citizen's family, adding that the victim's family will receive his monthly salary for the duration of their lifetime. "Pakistanis living abroad couldn't show their faces in public after this incident," he said.
He said even the overseas Pakistanis were ashamed of the Sialkot incident. He warned that "we are heading in a completely different direction" and urged the nation to study the life of the Prophet. He said that Pakistan was the only country that was established in the name of Islam, but Sialkot-like incidents were a source of shame. Then who will defend these accused," asked the premier. "Judges refuse to hear blasphemy cases, we know that.
He deplored that people in Pakistan were killing others in the name of the Holy Prophet and those accused of blasphemy rot in jails because lawyers and judges were scared to hear such cases.
He said the Sialkot incident brought the nation on the one point to "put an end to such incidents", adding that the people of Pakistan were united against extremism as they came together against terrorism after the attack on a school in Peshawar in 2014. "Nobody will be spared perpetrating violence under the garb of religion," he said.