LAHORE, Pakistan – A person shot and wounded a Christian priest in japanese Pakistan, in line with a police criticism launched on Monday, simply weeks after vigilante mobs within the space attacked church buildings and burnt down properties, displacing tons of within the small non secular minority neighborhood.
After conducting a church service this weekend within the japanese city of Jaranwala, Elizar Sandhu, a neighborhood priest, was stopped by a person who informed him to recite a Muslim non secular textual content, in line with the data report filed to police.
The man then shot the priest within the arm when the non secular chief recited a Christian prayer in response. The priest is being handled in a close-by hospital.
A big contingent of armed paramilitary troopers has fanned out to revive calm in Jaranwala after violence roiled the world final month, however tensions have remained excessive and Christians displaced from their properties have mentioned they’re terrified of extra violence.
More than 120 folks have been arrested over the hours-long rampage by a mob that residents mentioned consisted of individuals carrying iron rods, knives and sticks, and which set hearth to church buildings and scores of properties.
Police and residents mentioned the assault began after somebody took allegedly desecrated pages of the Muslim holy ebook, the Koran, to a mosque prayer chief, which was adopted by bulletins calling for punishment.
Police have arrested two Christian males accused of blasphemy and are investigating.
Blasphemy is punishable by demise in Pakistan however nobody has ever been executed, though quite a few folks accused of blasphemy have been lynched by outraged mobs prior to now.
Caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has additionally visited the world, calling final month’s assault an atrocity and promising Pakistan’s minority non secular communities that the federal government would shield them. — Reuters
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