At least 10 children killed in Pakistan as boat capsizes
Peshawar, PakistanReuters At least 10 children were killed on Sunday when a boat carrying religious school students capsized in north-west Pakistan, officials said. Around eight students were still missing while seven injured had been taken to hospital, according to local officials in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where the accident took place. People and rescue workers gather […]
Pakistan’s largest city flooded in latest bout of torrential rain
Karachi, Pakistan Reuters Torrential rains caused widespread flooding and damage in Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi on Monday, even inundating the business district, officials said. Most underpasses were flooded and there was nowhere to pump the flood waters out to, the chief minister for Sindh province, Murad Ali Shah told reporters. He said an unprecedented 126 […]
At least 20 killed in earthquake in southern Pakistan
Quetta, PakistanReuters At least 20 people were killed and more than 200 injured when an earthquake struck southern Pakistan, Disaster Management Authority Director General Naseer Nasir said on Thursday. The earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 struck in the early hours of Thursday while people were sleeping. Rescue workers said the dead were mostly women […]
‘Under siege’ – Fear and defiance mark life for Pakistan’s minority Hazaras
Hazara Town, PakistanReuters High walls around the neighbourhoods of Pakistan’s embattled Hazara community in the south-western city of Quetta are designed to protect them from extremist militants, but also serve as a constant reminder of the threat they face. Soldiers and security checkpoints greet visitors to Hazara Town, one of two large guarded neighbourhoods in […]
“Extremists given a free hand” – Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
World Watch Monitor Two Pakistani Christians were killed and at least three injured in a drive-by shooting on Sunday in Essa Nagri, a Christian-majority area in Quetta, capital of the impoverished Balochistan province in the south-west. The victims, aged 19 and 28, had just left a Seventh-day Adventist church service when they were gunned down […]
Four Christians killed, girl wounded in Easter Monday attack in Pakistan
Morning Star News Four Christians, including a woman, were killed and a young girl wounded in a terrorist attack in Pakistan on Monday, sources said. Rickshaw driver Pervaiz Masih was transporting his brothers-in-law Imran Masih and Tariq Masih, along with their sister-in-law Firdous, in Quetta, capital of the restive province, when two unidentified terrorists opened […]
PAKISTAN: CHURCH LEADERS ARRESTED AND FINED FOR NOT PUTTING SECURITY IN PLACE
ASIF AQEEL reports for the World Watch Monitor from Pakistan…
Breaking: At least nine reportedly killed in attack on church in Quetta, Pakistan
At least nine people were reportedly killed in a church bombing in Pakistan on Sunday. Reports said two suicide bombers attacked the Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in the city of Quetta and while one was shot by security guards at the entrance to the church, the other managed to detonate his explosives inside, killing at least […]
Pakistan expels South Korean for ‘illegal preaching’ after murder of Chinese ‘missionaries’
World Watch Monitor Pakistan has ordered a South Korean man to leave the country, accusing him of involvement in “illegal preaching activities”, after two of his students at an Urdu-language school were abducted and killed by the so-called Islamic State group, which claimed they had been secretly preaching Christianity. “Investigations have revealed that [Juan Won-seo] went […]
China investigating killing of Christian couple
BosNewsLife China says it is investigating claims that two of its citizens were engaged in “illegal preaching” before the two Christians were killed by Islamic militants in Pakistan. Pakistani officials identified the victims as 24-year-old Lee Zing Yang and 26-year-old Meng Li Si. They say they entered Pakistan on business visas but later began “preaching,” […]