Dear All, I have been reading that the Christians in Pakistan are under threat and that prayers are requested for them because of a particular incident.
I have checked with my many friends in the media ( I'm a media person myself) and let me assure you all that the said incident was political in nature and that the boundary-wall of the church in the area was used to write political slogans. It was purely an attempt to create a clash between the Pathan and Mohajir people of the area. It sure did happen and some Christians along with a lot of Muslims were hurt and several properties were damaged...and not solely of Christians. It was not at all Christian-aim trouble. Fr. Mario statement has been grossly misinterpreted by the Indian media and people are blindly forwarding a gross mis-interoperation of the incident which occurred in early may. Calm and normalcy was restored by the area people and the police a few days later. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a highly respected and independently organization has the following to say. A Human Rights Commission of Pakistan fact-finding team reports that the violence that erupted last month at a Christian resettlement colony in Surjani/Taiser Town was a ploy engineered by an area PPP-MQM nexus of land-grabbers to harass their ANP competitors by blaming Pashtuns for the pro-Taliban wall-chalking on churches and the subsequent attacks!!!! Warm regards, Michael New York formerly of Karachi __._,_.___
