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Saturday, April 1, 2006
CHURCH’S FURNITURE TORCHED IN PAKISTAN
By Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special Correspondent for Assist News Service in Pakistan
MULTAN, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Some unidentified people attacked a church in Mianchannu, a small town of district Multan on Thursday night, March 30.
According to the AFP a group of people allegedly broke into the church and set to fire its furniture.
“We have started an investigation into the incident but we think it was designed to create religious unrest in the area” the AFP quoted a local police official as saying.
Amid the tense situation in the town a local Christian politician told the AFP that the attack was meant to create conflict between the local Christian community and Muslims.
In February, a church’s door and windows were torched in Sargodha, whereas a church was torched in Sukkur and the other was ransacked by a Muslim mob over rumors that Quran, the Muslim holy book had been desecrated.
The fresh attack on a church in Mianchannu situated in the eastern Punjab province of Pakistan calls for employing strict measures to thwart possible attacks on churches in the country.
The writer is a freelance journalist based in Pakistan.
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