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Anglican leader says Pakistan's minorities should have equal rights
[DAWN] The Archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday called for Pakistain to safeguard the rights of its religious minorities and afford them equal treatment under the law.
"Christians, historically, have given tremendous services to this country and I hope they can be given the scale of freedom and equal rights under the law," he told AFP. He added his message to the people and government of this country was to respect and safeguard the rights of all minorities. Talking to media, he said he met many Mohammedan religious leaders and government fumitories including Punjab governor Muhammad Sarwar. "Everybody is concerned about the private use of blasphemy laws, which is a sensitive matter in Pakistain," he said. "However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... they don't suggest a way forward and mechanism how to stop it." Most of Pakistain's Christians are poor and working in menial jobs. They have suffered attacks and riots in recent years, most notoriously last September when a double suicide kaboom at a church in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. killed 82 people. Posted by: Fred 2014-05-29 |
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