Editorial in Pakistan Today, August 17th, 2023The attack on three churches and a number of homes by a mob in Jaranwala, indicates that matters which had seemed to have gone out of control, have not improved. Once again, a mob has been inflamed to violence by a cleric’s diatribe against an alleged blasphemer. After the situation calmed somewhat, it transpired that the accused had been taken into custody by the police, that one church had…
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edit in Daily Times, August 17th, 2023People cheering on as vigilantes attacked a holy symbol perched upon a place of worship; hundreds of smug men vandalising cemetries and setting scores of houses on fire as helpless members of the law enforcement agencies tried to explain the supremacy of the law. This is not a raging war zone but a thriving medium-sized town in one of the fastest developing industrial centres in Pakistan. Tragic footages of…