Sir: Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder, wherein a person apparently seeming normal, is actually out of touch with the reality around him. The disease has many types; at times people hear voices, get paranoid, feel delusions of grandeur, etc. A British national of Pakistani origin, aged 70, was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia since 2010. He came to Pakistan to meet his family, friends and other relatives. During his stay in Pakistan, he wrote several letters to different people to establish his prophethood. This act of his somehow became public and he was accused of committing blasphemy. Ignoring his mental disorder, a Rawalpindi court found him guilty and sentenced him to death. The poor soul languished in jail until shot and wounded by a police officer. Even if we ignore the security lapse that let the police officer enter jail with a 30-bore handgun and a dagger, how could we ignore the freedom he was awarded to kill the victim. My question to all those who accused him of blasphemy and to those who sentenced him to death is, who in reality had been suffering from paranoid delusion? Masood KhanJubail,Saudi Arabia