(AsiaNews) Hundreds of Muslims attacked a Christian village in Okara (Punjab), after a quarrel between some young Christians who cleaned the entrance to their church and a Muslim gentleman who passed by.
In a few hours the quarrel became a raid, in which Christian men and women were beaten with iron bars, houses invaded, furniture destroyed and property stolen.
The next day, a huge crowd arrived on the scene and attacked the home of Mangta Masih and 80 other houses.
Mangta Masih then filed a complaint (First Information Report, FIR) against the perpetrators at the Okara police station.
The parish priest, Fr. Khalid Mukhtar, spread the news on social media, defining the beating against Christian families as a “terrorist attack”, in which men and women were savagely beaten.
According to the parish priest, the Christians were attacked by a crowd, “many of them have been recognized… Why don’t the police arrest them? We ask that all the guilty be arrested as soon as possible and judged by the law”.
Aslam Pervaiz Sohotra, president of the Masiha Milat Party condemned the attack and expressed sadness that “the police have not yet arrested the perpetrators after so long”.
“We Christians – he added – support Pakistan and make an important contribution to its progress, but we are not treated well. We will never stop raising our voices against the injustices suffered by Christians and other minorities in Pakistan”.
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