Christians Under Attack

Two villages have faced attacks with Muslims using mosques to broadcast calls for attacks on Christians.

The first incident took place in Govind village, near Lahore, according to Christian campaign group Release International. They claim that Muslims there objected to prayers being relayed through loudspeakers at the village church and used rival loudspeakers at seven mosques to broadcast a call to war against Christians

One villager said that the message declared: “A religious war has been started against the kaffirs [infidels] so all the Muslims come out of their houses”.’ In a separate incident, in the village of Kasur, mosque loudspeakers were used to call on Muslims to seize land belonging to Christians.

According to reports, more than 70 armed militants invaded the village, demolishing three homes before police intervened. The attackers said they were trying to reclaim the site of a Muslim graveyard, but this has been rejected by the Christian villagers.

One villager said: “Muslims threatened us that when they will [be] released from the jail, they will annihilate all of our houses and kill us. They are very powerful people. They often show their weapons and open fire in the air.” Meanwhile Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, said that elections in Pakistan would be delayed at most until February, a month later than planned. However Benazir Bhutto has denounced the offer as ‘insufficient’ and called on General Musharraf to stand down within a week. President Bush said he had called General Musharraf and urged him to hold elections

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