Pakistan: Madrassa Teachers Slit Colleague’s Throat, Say Victim Committed ‘Blasphemy’ In Their Dream

Three madrassa teachers in Pakistan have told the local police that a minor girl from their family saw a dream the previous night that a colleague of their had committed blasphemy and so they killed the colleague, several Pakistani dailies have reported.

On the morning of Tuesday, a woman was found lying in a pool of blood with her throat slashed outside Jamia Islamia Falahul Binaat seminary in Anjumabad area of Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She died of the wounds.

The police later arrested three women for the crime. The police told the media that in their statements, the suspects said that a minor female relative of theirs saw a dream the previous night in which they found out about the deceased committing blasphemy. They said that in the dream [Islam’s founder] Prophet Mohammed ordered them to kill her.

“The three accused ladies have so far disclosed that one of their relative , about a thirteen year old girl, had seen a dream last night that the Prophet PBUH had directed them that the victim had committed blasphemy against the Prophet and that the Prophet had ordered them to slaughter the victim," news website Samaa has quoted the police statement.

The suspects are named Umra Aman, Razia Hanif and Aisha Nomani and are aged 24, 21 and 17 respectively. They are teachers at the madrassa. The deceased was a former teacher the same madrassa, but has not been identified in the media so far.

The police told the media that the victim was a follower of Maulana Tariq Jameel, who is a well-known religious preacher in Pakistan. The suspects did not like him and developed “religious differences” with the victim.

They reportedly stabbed her before slitting her throat.