Tag: Jamaat-ul-Ahrar

Pakistan prevents another Easter attack on its Christians

April 18, 2017 Pakistan Easter, Islamic State, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lahore, Peshawar, Taliban, Youhanabad

Pakistan’s security forces say they prevented a “major” terror attack on Christians in Lahore over the Easter weekend. The city of Lahore, in Pakistan’s Punjab province, was the scene of a deadly suicide bomb attack on Easter Day last year, when 75 people were killed and 340 injured. A splinter . . . Read More

Pakistan: One killed after attack on Christian colony

September 2, 2016 Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mardan, Peshawar, Taliban, Warsak Dam

One person was killed and two policemen injured after an early morning attack on a Christian colony near the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. Four suicide bombers carrying automatic weapons were waiting at the gate to the colony, which was locked every night. When Samuel Masih, 55, opened the gate on his . . . Read More

Pakistani Christians in Thailand given temporary ID cards

April 6, 2016 Pakistan Asylum seekers, Gojra, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Refugees, Taliban, UN

Pakistani Christians in a Thai detention facility, in an image taken from a BBC documentary.BBC Last month, World Watch Monitor reported that there are about 11,500 Pakistanis seeking asylum in Thailand, a 51 per cent increase from the previous year; all are classified as Christians in a recent report . . . Read More

Pakistani Christians bury their dead after Easter massacre

March 31, 2016 Pakistan Easter, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, Taliban

The aftermath of a bomb blast in the middle of a popular Lahore amusement park packed with people on Easter Day.Abid Nawaz for World Watch Monitor Parvaiz Masih didn’t know his son was among the hundreds injured in the Easter bombing of a crowded park in Pakistan until the . . . Read More

Pakistan’s bombing ‘part of wider struggle’

March 29, 2016 Pakistan Blasphemy, Easter, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Taliban, Terrorism

The Lahore bombing on Easter Sunday that killed at least 70 is part of a wider struggle against extremism in Pakistan, explains a British correspondent for . He was in the country during what he calls an Easter ‘weekend of madness’; it also saw 25,000 hard-line Islamic protestors march on . . . Read More

Bomb kills scores of Easter revellers in Pakistan

March 28, 2016 Pakistan Easter, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Lahore, Pakistan, Taliban, Youhanabad

A bomber killed at least 72 people and injured at last 300 more on Easter Sunday in Lahore, Pakistan. The bomber struck in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal park, which was unusually crowded with families celebrating Easter. “[T]he terrorist hit a very soft target of women and children,” Deputy Inspector General of Operations . . . Read More

Bombers kill 17, injure at least 80 in Pakistan church attacks

March 16, 2015 Pakistan Imran Khan, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Kasur, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan Muslim League, Pashtun, PTI, Taliban

At St. John’s Catholic Church, the bomber was kept outside of the courtyard by a security volunteer who dragged the attacker off the wall.World Watch Monitor At least 17 people were killed, and 80 others injured, as two churches in the main Christian district of Lahore, Pakistan, were attacked . . . Read More

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