“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 […]
Pakistan Christian still on death row, five years after his ‘blasphemy’ sparked Joseph Colony attack
World Watch Monitor At the fifth anniversary of the arson attack on a Christian neighbourhood in the Pakistani city of Lahore, the mother of the Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam – and so provoking the attack – says she still prays for his release. Sawan Masih*, a 30-year-old sanitation worker, was accused by a Muslim […]
Pakistan court acquits all suspects in 2013 arson of Christian neighbourhood
World Watch Monitor A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Saturday acquitted every one of the more than 100 suspects accused of ransacking, looting and then burning a Christian neighbourhood in Lahore in March, 2013. The anti-terrorism judge, Chaudhry Muhammad Azam, acquitted them after prosecution witnesses failed to identify the suspects, while the prosecutor general said “the […]