The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday said it suspected that the Jaranwala rioters were not a “spontaneous or random crowd”, but a part of a “larger campaign of hatred against local Christians”. On August 16, a violent mob of hundreds ransacked and torched nearly two dozen churches, attacked […]
Rahmat Masih works as a helper in a textile mill in Faisalabad. On August 16, he reached home in the morning after night duty. He was just lying down to sleep when his eyes were opened by the noise in the street. Meanwhile, someone knocked loudly on their door called their […]
Four days after mobs attacked Christian neighborhoods in Jaranwala tehsil of Faisalabad district, burning churches and ransacking homes and businesses, a similar outrage over blasphemy allegations was narrowly averted in Sahiwal on Sunday, sources said. Bishop Abraham Daniel of the Sahiwal Baptist church said that tensions escalated in 186/9-L village when […]