Pakistan police guard Christian colony after mob attack over 'blasphemy'
Thursday, 17 August 2023 Police were guarding a Christian neighbourhood in Pakistan on Thursday, after hundreds of Muslim men rampaged through its streets burning and ransacking churches and homes over accusations of blasphemy a day earlier.The violence broke out in Jaranwala, on the outskirts of the industrial city of Faisalabad, after allegations spread that Christians had desecrated the Koran, forcing families to flee their homes.
Pakistan police guard a Christian neighbourhood in Jaranwala after hundreds of people fled a Muslim mob that rampaged through the streets on Wednesday over alleged blasphemy. Christians, who make up around two percent of the population, occupy one of the lowest rungs in Pakistani society and are...
"That cleric should have understood that when you gather people in such a charged environment in a country in which people were already very sensitive about blasphemy it is like adding fuel to fire",..
A Muslim crowd attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, vandalising several churches and setting scores of houses on fire after accusing two of its members of desecrating the..
Images on social media showed crowds of hundreds armed with sticks and rocks storming through the streets, with smoke rising from the badly damaged church... IndiaTimes
Thursday, 17 August 2023
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