20 Are Hacked and Beaten to Death at Pakistani Shrine<br />GILGIT-BALTISTAN CHINA AFGHANISTAN Islamabad JAMMU AND KASHMIR Jhelum River Chenab River Sargodha PUNJAB PROVINCE PAKISTAN NEPAL INDIA<br />200 Miles Indus AFGHANISTAN Islamabad Jhelum River Chenab River Sargodha PUNJAB PROVINCE PAKISTAN INDIA Indus 200 Miles APRIL 2, 2017<br />Mr. Waheed also said that Mr. Gujjar, a relatively obscure mystic who died two years ago, had been poisoned by a group of devotees.<br />Punjab Province were that The shrine was always crowded by drug addicts and people who were under the influence.<br />One of those killed was Asif Ali Gujjar, Mr. Gujjar’s son,<br />and police officials said the killings may have been related to disagreements over control of the shrine.<br />Mr. Waheed told the authorities that he had killed the devotees at the shrine to Ali Muhammad Gujjar,<br />the self-described mystic, in self-defense because he believed they planned to poison him.<br />Mr. Waheed, a former government employee who used to give sermons at the shrine, claims to be the spiritual heir to Mr. Gujjar.<br />Mr. Waheed, the authorities said, admitted luring the devotees to the site about 12 miles from Sargodha in Punjab Province,<br />and carrying out the killings with the help of at least two associates.<br />" Officials said that the people who went to the shrine Saturday night were given an intoxicating drink before they were tortured, raising the possibility<br />that the killings were premeditated. that Locals say that Asif claimed he is the rightful heir of the shrine, being the son of Ali Muhammad Gujjar.<br />" Mr. Khan said. that Only after this incident, people from the surrounding area told police that they used to hear screams coming from the shrine,
