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Lahore: The Christian community in Pakistan's Sangla Hill has started fleeing the area following threats from religious organizations who threatened to demonstrate against their colleagues, arrested on charges of burning down churches and pastoral residences in the area. The provincial police had arrested 88 people after a mob attacked and burned down four churches, a Christian school and two pastor residences on November 12. “There was lots of panic in the area, as several Christians fled the locality after the threatening calls and demonstration plans. But this time round police acted swiftly and cordoned off the area with the help...

Pakistan is one of the countries where the minorities are in one of the worst condition in the whole world. Minorities are very insecure in this society, cause of this insecurity and fear are the laws of Blasphemy. If any person says or writes something which goes in offence of Mohammad the prophet of Islam, or disgraces Koran the holly Book of Islam, punishment for this act is Sentence to death. These types of laws are the fruits of an extremist Islamic society, which prospered in General Zia Ul Haq’s Regime (1980s). Since then the minorities are the easy victims...