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Pak police guard Christian colony after mob attack over 'blasphemy'
Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on August 17, 2023
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 buildings. At least 100 people have been arrested, with police also seeking to arrest the people accused of defiling the Muslim holy book. The Christian community accounts for...
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Published on August 18, 2023 - 01:20
Pakistan police guard Christian area after mob attack over 'blasphemy'
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 frequently targeted with spurious blasphemy allegations.
Blasphemy is an incendiary charge in deeply conservative, Muslim-majority Pakistan, where even unproven allegations of insulting Islam and its Prophet Mohammed can provoke death at the hands of vigilantes.
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