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Footprints: Nothing to come home to

by Irfan Aslam in Dawn, August 18th, 2023“WE were all still sleeping when the announcements were made in mosque loudspeakers at about 5am, inciting the people against us (Christians). As soon as we heard the announcements, we ran for our lives,” Parveen Bibi tells Dawn in between sobs. Her house was situated behind the Catholic Church — one of the oldest churches in the Christian Colony of Jaranwala — in a dingy street. Now this…