Pakistan - Mob Kills and Burns Man Suspected of Desecrating the Koran - NYTimes.com Thousands of people dragged a Pakistani man accused of desecrating the Koran from a police station in central Pakistan, beat him to death and then set his body on fire, a police official said Wednesday. The episode highlighted the highly charged nature of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, under which anyone found guilty of insulting the Prophet Muhammad or the Koran can be sentenced to death. A senior police officer, Mohammed Azhar Gujar, said the killing took place Tuesday in Bahawalpur, a city in a deeply conservative part of central Pakistan. Officer Gujar said the victim, who appeared to be mentally unstable, was arrested after residents said he threw pages of the Koran into the street.