PESHAWAR – A group of Muslim scholars including PM’s aide on religiousharmony prayed inside a church in the KP capital to show solidarity withthe Christian community in wake of the killing of Pastor William Siraj.
Reports in local media said religious scholars gathered inside a church ofPeshawar in a show of solidarity, days after assailants killed a Christianpriest and wounded another in the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Special Representative to PM on Religious Affairs Tahir Ashrafi said ImranKhan was personally overseeing the incident and the Pakistani Christiancommunity will not be left alone in this hard time.
Commenting on praying in the Christian worship place, he said the statebelieves that a positive message in the form of today’s prayers should beconveyed. “We want to send out a message to the world that we are united”,he opined.
Ashrafi termed the attack on a member of a minority, an attack on aPakistani citizen. He also revealed that the attack on the Cristian priestwas a nefarious attempt to stir unrest on the basis of faith.
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Meanwhile, the deceased was laid to rest after the last rites at the AllSaints Church located inside the Kohati Gate in Peshawar. Christiancommunity members attended the funeral.
Earlier, opposition leaders condemned the daylight killing, terming theevent painful and alarming. Several members of the Christian community,provincial minister Kamran Bangash and police chief Moazzam Jah Ansarivisited the Chamkani church to condole with the victims’ families.
