During the investigation, the accused women told the police that their 13-year-old female relative saw a dream in which she was told that the deceased had committed "blasphemy". Based on her dream, the three women killed the 21-year-old victim.

As per the initial report based on the statement of the victim's uncle, the women associated with a madrassa attacked a former classfellow - who was now working at a different madrassa - with a sharp-edged weapon for alleged blasphemy and killed her on the spot.

In a message on Twitter, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said it "horrified by the cold-blooded murder of a woman by 3 female seminary colleagues in D I Khan on allegations of blasphemy."

The HRCP said that the details based on a "dream" of an adolescent girl was "both frightening and incomprehensible."

The human rights commission urged the government to "acknowledge and tackle the recent increase in vigilante-led violence in the name of religion by taking a harder line against perpetrators".