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Region of Terror

 "Regions of sorrow, doleful shades/Where hope never comes, that come to all." Such is the condition of our country where looming shadows of fear and uncertainty are always casting upon us. No moment goes when fear doesn't reside with us. This became all the more intense when a horrid incident took place in Sialkot where Priyantha Kumara, a general manager in a factory for some years, became victim of the brutal and inhuman treatment of the inflamed mob. -He was accused of having committed blasphemy against the Holy Quran or the Prophet (PBUH). No concrete evidence, however, has been brought in to validitify their accusation. No sooner had anyone declared him as being blasphemous, than, as most of the time happens, the inflamed and furious mob pounced upon him, beat him with sticks and set his corpse on fire so as to send him to hell he was bound to go into, after all! -The more perturbing and depressing is the sight as to how to institutions concerned such as law enforci...