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Pakistan: Christian Students Abused in Schools

Compass Daily News reports “Pakistan: Muslim Teachers in Pakistan Allegedly Abuse Christian Students”
— “Derogatory remarks, beatings, pressure to convert to Islam drive two girls to drop out.”

— Compass Daily News reports:
— “Muslim teachers at a girls school here have derided Christian students for their faith, beat them, pressured them to convert to Islam and forced them to clean school bathrooms and classrooms after class hours, according to area Christians.”
— “Muslim teachers at Government Higher Secondary School in village No. 79-NB (Northern Branch), Sargodha, in Punjab Province, have so abused Christian students that two of the dozens of Christian girls at the school have dropped out, said a 16-year-old student identified only as Sana.”
— “‘Christian students are teased and mocked by radical Muslim, female teachers from the start of the school day to the end,’ she said. ‘Due to the contemptuous behavior on religious grounds by the fanatical Muslim principal and staff, Christian students feel dejected, depressed and frustrated. I am totally broken-hearted because of the intolerance and discrimination.'”
— “Rebecca Bhatti, a 16-year-old grade 10 student, told Compass she left the government school because her main teacher, along with an Islamic Education & Arabic Language teacher identified only as Sumaira, a math teacher identified only as Gullnaz, other Muslim teachers and Ferhat Naz, the principal, would call Christian girls in to the staff room at recess and demand that they polish their shoes or wash their undergarments and other clothes.”

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