Pakistan’s Punjab: Christian Girl Attacked For Saying She’s Pakistani

Pakistan’s Punjab: Christian Girl Attacked For Saying She’s Pakistani
– BOSNEWS reports: “A Christian schoolgirl in Pakistan’s Punjab province was recovering Sunday, October 11, after she was allegedly “ruthlessly beaten” with a bamboo stick by a Muslim headteacher for saying she is ‘a Pakistani’ citizen.”
– 11 year old Nadia Iftikhar: “Our teacher was teaching us about the culture of Pakistan and Pakistani people and  quoted a sentence from the text book saying ‘We are Pakistani and all of us are Muslims’.  At this point I interrupted and said: “Madam, I am also a Pakistani, but not a Muslim instead I am a Christian.”
– “The teacher, identified as Humaira Hassa, ‘got furious and grabbed a bamboo stick and started thrashing in a barbarian way and kept saying all Pakistanis are Muslim, you are not a Pakistani but a Christian,’ the girl said. ‘Your home land is some where in Europe or America,’ the teacher allegedly said.”
– “Nadia added showed scars of the wounds at her back. Classmates said the girl briefly became unconscious, but was eventually brought home. The teacher could not be reached for comment.”
– “Local Christians in Punjab province have also complained of police complicity in attacks against Christian believers.”