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 | | ISLAMABAD - A Pakistan man accused of blasphemy was stoned to death by hundreds of villagers after a local religious leader called for him to be executed, police said on Saturday as a probe began. |
 | | Zahid Mahmood Akhtar, 48, was dragged out of his home on Thursday night, beaten and then marched to a village square near the town of Chak Jhumra, in central Punjab province, and stoned, police said. |
 | | The man, who was mentally ill, had claimed to be the "last prophet of Islam", and the mullah, or the prayer group leader of the local mosque used a loud hailer to issue a fatwa, or decree, to execute Akhtar. |
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