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Note: The following text is a quote: Saturday, March 13, 2010 Christian Man dies of a heart attack following serious threats and harassment from a group of militant Muslims who broke into his home By Xavier Patras William Special to ASSIST News Service LAHORE, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Mukhityar Masih, a 37-year-old Christian man, died of a heart attack following serious threats and harassment he suffered from a group of militant Muslims who broke into his home in Youhanabad, Lahore on March 7, 2010. He died after the believer had bought some land from a Muslim landlord and a real estate...

An explosion at what appears to be an extremist training camp for children in Pakistan's Punjab province has killed 11 people and wounded more than 120. A massive explosion in the town of Mian Channu in the Khanewal district in northern Punjab province leveled at least 25 homes. More people are thought to have been trapped in the rubble. Seven children and one woman are among those reported killed, and another 12 people are said to be in critical condition. The blast occurred at the home of a local cleric named Hafiz Riaz, who is said to conduct informal religious...

Note: The following text is a quote: June 13, 2009 Pakistan: Muslims attack pastor's home, beat women with rifle-butts While D.C. based Pakistani officials deny that there is any persecution of non-Muslims in Pakistan and that, even if there were, the police would be all over it, here's yet another tale, hot off the press, giving him the lie on both counts. More on such stories. "Pakistan: Muslims attack pastor's home, relatives," from Compass Direct News, June 12: After shooting into air, assailants strike mother, sister-in-law with rifle butts. LAHORE, Pakistan, June 12 (Compass Direct News) – In a growing...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09040033.htm Saturday, April 4, 2009 Pakistani Christian man murdered By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan Special to ASSIST News Service FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- ANS has learned that a Pakistani Christian man was murdered on the night of March 31, 2009 in Samundri, located in the Faisalabad district of Punjab province, when he went to his brother’s house to get medicine for himself. The family of Rashid Masih were worried about him when he did not return despite passage of several hours. Rashid’s family looked for him everywhere in Sumandri but could...

PUNJAB PROVINCE, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) ---www.persecution.org -- says that it has just learned that six unidentified men went on a robbing spree in a rural village in Pakistan on the night of January 10, and when they realized that one of the households they were robbing was Christian, they gang-raped a 14-year-old girl in front of her parents to violate their faith. “The six criminals, armed with guns, forced their way into two Muslim houses and three Christian homes, physically assaulted the residents, and took cash, TVs, cell phones and...

TORONTO - An anti-terrorism probe that led to the arrest of 19 Pakistani men, including one who took commercial flight training over a nuclear power plant, highlights security holes that should have been plugged after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, Ontario officials said. The Public Security and Anti-Terrorism Unit, a federal national security task force, quietly arrested the group of mostly young men last week. The men appear to have used fraudulent student visas to enter Canada or to maintain their residency here. Federal authorities documented a pattern of suspicious behaviour that shows an interest in Ontario's nuclear generators...