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Pakistan – ICC Report: “Muslim Mob Burns Down 100 Christian Homes in Pakistan”

(Pakistan) ICC Report: “Muslim Mob Burns Down 100 Christian Homes in Pakistan”
— ICC reports: “This morning 100 Christian houses and churches were set on fire by local Muslims in the city of Kasur South, east of Lahore, Pakistan”
— “The riots were incited by broadcasts from local mosques”
— “This incident is similar to a February 1997 attack when thousands of Christian houses and churches were burned and hundreds of Christians were injured”
— “So far 9 burned women and 4 children have been transferred to Lahore for further medical treatment”
— “All of them have been injured by throwing acid on them”

Pakistan Daily Times: Christian families in Kasur hide from angry mobs
— “At least 110 Christian families, almost 700 people, were forced on Tuesday night to flee Bahmniwala, a village in Kasur, after angry mobs attacked and threatened to burn their houses for allegedly committing blasphemy”
— “The families sought safety in the fields surrounding their village, even as local mosques urged the Muslims to unite and ‘teach a lesson’ to the Christians, residents told Daily Times”
— “The Christians who returned to their homes found they had no electricity or drinking water the entire day”