Pakistani Christian Villagers Come Under ‘Wrath’ of Local Muslims and Police
ANS – “Pakistani Christian residents of Hakim colony in Chak [village] 48-NB, Sargodha, Pakistan, are claiming that they have been experiencing the ‘wrath’ of local Muslims and police, following a complaint from an influential Muslim landlord that he had been robbed of a large amount of money.
Sources have since alleged to ANS that several Christian youths have been arrested and tortured by the police to try and extract confessions from them about the robbery they say they had nothing to do with.
Khalid Masih, a driver who lives in this colony, told ANS in a face-to-face interview, that the case began on Saturday, February 12, 2011, at about 1800 hours (Pakistani Time), when some unidentified dacoits [armed robbers] looted and absconded with the equilavent of about $20,218.84 USD in Pakistani Rupees from the home of a local Muslim landlord.
After the robbery, Masih said, the landlord then registered a complaint at the local Cantonment Police Station in Sargodha under section 392 [armed robbery] of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), against the ‘unknown robbers.’
Masih then claimed that the Muslim investigating officer and his close aid started ‘arresting and harassing’ some of the Christian villagers of the Hakim Colony.
Three Christian youths, identified as Saleem Masih, son of Taj Masih, Saleem Masih, son of George Masih, and Mohsin Masih, son of Younas Masih, were then arrested and ‘beaten on their buttocks in an vicious manner’ with clubs, a long piece of ‘tire’ and ‘remained shackled’ for several days in the this police station, he said.
I personally saw their wounds that they told me they had sustained due the chains that police tortured them with to try and get them to confess to this crime that they claimed they had not committed.” Read more.




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