Christian persecution in Pakistan

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Compass Direct News : PAKISTAN - TALIBAN MILITANTS FORCE BURQA ON CHRISTIAN WOMEN’S SCHOOL

A Pakistani official in a northern district warned female teachers and students to don Islamic garb this week, citing threats from Taliban extremists active in the area.

Christians in the Afghan-border region 120 miles north of Peshawar say that extremists from the Taliban movement, which ruled most of Afghanistan from 1995 to 2001, have targeted them in recent months.

“Due to continuous threatening letters from the Taliban directing female staff and students to wear burqas … the Executive District Officer has instructed [them] to comply with the orders,” the Daily Mashriq article stated.

The all-girls school had already closed down for a week this month after being threatened with suicide attacks for supposedly converting students to Christianity.

Entitled “Red Notice for Public School Sangota, (The Factory of Englishmen),” the September 8 letter accused the nuns of involving students in adultery, according to a Union of Catholic News for Asia (UCAN) article.

The Urdu-language note said that Christian teachers were converting Muslim students, who make up more than 99 percent of the schools 950 students, to Christianity. The Catholic Church’s National Commission for Justice and Peace reported that the extremists also told parents to withdraw their girls and place them in Islamic schools.

A Christian running a small medical clinic has been forced to close down the center and conduct only home visits in order to avoid attack.

“Embrace Islam and become Muslims … otherwise, after next Friday, August 10, your colony will be ruined,” read one of more than a dozen identical letters thrown into the courtyards of Christian and Hindu homes in Peshawar last month.

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