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 […]
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 […]