President orders probe into murder of Christians
ICC Note
We welcome the call by the president of
07/21/2010
At the same time, president’s media adviser and MNA Farahnaz Ispahani submitted an adjournment motion to the National Assembly’s Secretariat seeking a debate “on the subject of rising persecution of minority communities of
Taking note of media reports about the murder of two brothers outside a court in
Mr Zardari condemned the incident and said it had brought a bad name to the country. He said that life of every person was sacred and no-one could be allowed to take law into his own hands. He expressed sympathies with the families of Pastor Rashid Emmanuel and Sajjad Emmanuel and asked the provincial government to pay suitable compensation.
The brothers, accused of having distributed blasphemous material, were gunned down on the premises of a sessions court in
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The president also took notice of a report about demolition of a temple in
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MNA Farahnaz, in her adjournment motion, a copy of which was made available to Dawn, termed the murder of two Christian brothers a “horrific incident” and stated that international polls had shown “a trend of increasing violence and brutality” towards minority communities in
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