By Gregg Brekke, Presbyterian News Service. A Sunday afternoon blast ripped through a crowded park in Lahore, Pakistan, killing at least 70 and wounding more than 300 people. Pakistani Taliban splinter group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing it says targeted Christians celebrating Easter at the amusement park, although most of those killed, including…
AFP/Reuters Taliban suicide bombers have killed 14 people in attacks on two crowded churches in the Pakistani city of Lahore as worshippers attended Sunday services. A Pakistani Taliban splinter group has claimed responsibility for the attacks that wounded nearly 80 worshippers, and sparked mob violence in which two other suspected militants died. The bombings occurred…
By Rana Tanveer An over 3,000-strong mob set ablaze more than 150 houses of Christians in Lahore’s Joseph Colony over alleged blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) by Sawan Masih, a 28-year-old Christian sanitation worker, three days earlier. Sawan was arrested on Friday when his Muslim friend, Shahid Imran, accused him [Sawan] of blasphemy, triggering…