Murtaza, a 55-year-old resident of the Mukoana area in Faisalabad, is employed as an assistant in a nearby factory. He articulates the challenges posed by his modest income and the prevailing inflation, which significantly hinder his ability to cover household expenses. This financial strain has unfortunately led to the cessation of […]
Unwarranted activism on social media in the case of a pastor charged with faking an assassination attempt has diverted attention from persecution in the Jaranwala riots and endorsed claims of hardline groups that Christians were exploiting blasphemy cases to find asylum in Western countries, sources said. Faisalabad police on Friday (Sept […]
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 […]