Did President Alvi call Noor Mukadam’s murder an ‘isolated incident’?

President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi took to Twitter yesterday to condemn the video of a man who forced a Hindu worker of the Thar coal project to mock and hurl abuse at his religious deities.

Three tweets were sent from the official handle of the President of Pakistan to condemn the act, but one of his tweets was taken out of context by many social media users.

“Our society should remain alert. Such isolated ugly incidents are used to give a bad name to the country. I condemn it and I assure all citizens that we in Riasat-e-Madina cannot and will not allow this to happen.”

This tweet was widely shared by social media users in the context of Noor Mukadam’s case and in the context of rising violence against women in the country.

Have a look at some of the tweets:

https://twitter.com/sunstrawberryy/status/1420156234376826883
https://twitter.com/icarusdress/status/1420130497854943236
https://twitter.com/peshuntzero/status/1420103357725880320
https://twitter.com/its_AN1/status/1420133764680851457

President Alvi then took to his personal Twitter account to clarify the context of the tweet.

The man was arrested by the Sindh police from District Badin.

Spokesperson Sindh government Murtaza Wahab tweeted that he had been arrested:

President of Pakistan’s Twitter handle tweeted that the man was arrested after President Alvi took notice of the incident.

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