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☆ Pakistan crowd vandalises churches, torches homes after two accused of blasphemy
  + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Mubasher Bukhari Asif Shahzad | Mubasher Bukhari | Asif Shahzad | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
The two Christians were accused of blasphemy, he said, adding they and family members had fled their homes. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan and though no one has ever been executed for it, numerous accused people have been lynched by outraged crowds. A Christian leader, Akmal Bhatti, said the crowd had "torched" at least five churches and looted valuables from houses that had been abandoned by their owners. Several social media posts showed some churches, houses and belongings on fire as police stood by. The mob was made up of thousands of people led by local clerics, mainly from an Islamist political party called Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP), a government source said.
Persons: Naveed Ahmad, Shakil Masih, Usman Anwar, Anwar ul Haq Kakar, Akmal Bhatti, Asif Shahzad, Angus MacSwan, Nick Macfie Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, REUTERS Acquire, Caretaker, Thomson Locations: LAHORE, Pakistan, Jaranwala, Faisalabad, Islamabad
☆ Bajaur: At least 39 dead after blast rips through political gathering in Pakistan
  + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Sophia Saifi Allegra Goodwin | Sophia Saifi | Allegra Goodwin | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —At least 39 people died and over 120 were injured after a blast tore through a political convention organized by an Islamist party in northwestern Pakistan, police said. The Inspector General of Police for the region of Bajaur, Akhter Hayat Gandapur, said the injured in Sunday’s suspected suicide blast had been rushed to hospital. The explosion targeted members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party who had gathered in the town of Khar, close to the border with Afghanistan. But the local branch of ISIS has previously targeted JUI-F party leaders as they consider them apostates. The leader of the JUI-F party, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, expressed “deep sorrow and regret” following the blast, in a statement released by his press office.
Persons: Akhter Hayat Gandapur, Sunday’s, Fazl, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, ”, ” Rahim Shah, Dawn.com Organizations: CNN, Police, ISIS Locations: Pakistan, Bajaur, Jamiat, Khar, Afghanistan
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