Author: Staff Report
Publication: Daily Times
Date: April 5, 2006
URL: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C04%5C05%5Cstory_5-4-2006_pg7_16
More than 1,500 Christians protested in Tibba
Shomali in Mian Chunnu tehsil against the burning of the Bible and other sacred
texts by four Muslims on Tuesday.
The men were caught while burning the Bible,
calendars carrying the picture of Jesus Christ and other Christian booklets.
"We caught four people - Hafiz Islam, Hafiz Abid, Rana Abdul Ghaffar
and Rana Abdul Jabbar - burning our sacred books and literature on a heap
of garbage on Tuesday evening," Pakistan Christian Writers Guild President
AD Sahil said. Union Council Naib Nazim Ch Shamoon Kaiser said: "Two
chapters of the Holy Bible, calendars carrying portraits of Jesus Christ and
booklets containing religious literature were reduced to ashes."
He said that a mob of Christians tried to
attack them, but the elders intervened to save their lives. While condemning
the incident, a former district councillor condemned the incident but asked
the Christians of the area not to take the law into their own hands. When
contacted, Mian Chunnu Deputy Superintendent of Police Tikka-Khan refused
to comment on the incident.
