A Pakistani has set himself on fire in protest against government tax.
24-year-old Shahbaz Ahmed doused himself with petrol and set himself on fire, a scene that caught the attention of horrified passersby who rushed to extinguish the fire by throwing sand on his body. 
Local media reports have it that help came too late as Ahmed suffered serious injuries.
MailOnline reports that the graphic photographs show the scorched man running down a busy road, in the middle of the traffic, as stunned passersby look on.
The website said his clothes have almost completely been burned away, while his skin has been blackened by the fire.
According to local media reports, Mr Ahmed had set himself alight as a protest against the revenue department.
He claimed that the tax department had failed to ‘give him justice’.
