Pak extremists threaten to 'kill Christians if they protest' against blasphemy violence

Islamabad, Sat, 16 Mar 2013 ANI

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Islamabad, Mar 16 (ANI): Pakistani Christians have been warned by extremist groups that they would be killed if they organise protests.
Hundreds of Pakistani Christians became homeless in Badami Bagh, Lahore, on Saturday, March 9 after an attack by a mob of 3000 fanatics.
Two hundred homes in the Joseph Colony were turned to ashes and poor Christians of the neighbourhood are now living in the streets, desperate for food and other needs.
Their children cannot attend school or college due to the destruction and fear. Many residents have expressed great dismay and sorrow, and depression is seeping through the entire community, the Daily Times reports.
Pastor Naeem Bhadhar, a Presbyterian missionary living in a village Kalaswala, district Sialkot, 140 kilometres away from Lahore city, said that he had arranged a protest rally in their city.
But on March 14 when he was travelling back to his village a few radical Muslims from Jamaatud Dawa severely beat him with sticks and destroyed his motorcycle.
He told the paper that he was warned by the extremist group that if any Christian organises further protests, he will be killed.
The paper also pointed out that Muslims of Jhelum city threatened to burn Christians home in response to the protests.
Now the community is living in fear of reprisals for their simple act of condemning violence and the blasphemy laws of Pakistan, the paper added. (ANI)