By Shakeel Anjum in The News, December 29, 2023ISLAMABAD: The priest of Saint John’s Church at H-9 claimed that a gang equipped with sophisticated weapons stormed the worship place at about 8:30 on Thursday. Priest Imran Masih informed the Industrial Area police about it in his written complaint the same night. The complainant said that three among the six attackers had been identified as Sohail, Asif Chattha and Mithu, adding that they were equipped with…
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AFP report, Sept 2, 2023COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s police force said on Friday it had sacked an officer who entertained protesters with an impromptu piano performance after they stormed the island nation’s presidential compound last year. Constable R. M. D. Dayaratne was deployed to help protect the colonial-era residence on the day it was taken over by protesters who forced then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country. Instead, he sat at a grand piano in the…
by Areesha Rehan | Hawwa Fazal | Wara Irfan in Dawn online, August 18, 2023On Wednesday, August 16, a mob stormed and vandalised five churches, several homes of Christian families and even a cemetery in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala district. The violence erupted after some locals alleged that several desecrated pages of the Holy Quran had been found near a house at Cinema Chowk in Jaranwala, where two Christian brothers resided. Soon after, members of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik…