(AFP) Pakistani farmer Arshad Mehmood has been filled with pride since his son stabbed two people outside the former offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week, in the latest attack to expose the violent consequences of blasphemy allegations.
Zaheer Hassan Mehmood, who was born in Pakistan, has confessed to the attack, saying he was motivated by the magazine’s recent republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which are proscribed in Islam.
“In my opinion, what he did was very good,” Arshad told AFP.
The republication, marking the start of the trial over a deadly 2015 attack on the magazine’s previous premises, sparked condemnation across the Islamic world and protests throughout Pakistan.
