Excerpt from The Targeting of “ Minority Others” in Pakistan

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Concerning the shameful manner in which many Pakistani Christians and ‘Others’ are denied asylum in the UK, Nasir Saeed notes that:

 If any Westerner has any doubt as to the severity of the situation, they need only consider the accusation of blasphemy levelled against an 8^th grade pupil at a school near Abbottabad because she misspelled a word in a class test. The school’s decision to expel her only proves the extent to which the blasphemy laws are being misused. Yet, the British Government appears almost determined not to let any asylum seeker in, no matter how desperate or endangered their lives back home are. From the moment they submit their application for

asylum, Pakistani Christians have a tough time convincing the Border Agency that returning to their homeland is life threatening.

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All proceeds from the sale of the book support the work of the BPCA.  Much of the early sales will be used to support victims of the Peshawar bomb attacks - December 2013.

Are Christians dirty..... well

We would like to draw attention to one aspect of the event concerning persecution of Christian women that we reported on here.  One of the witnesses was Thomsena Anjum who, with her family, fled from Pakistan to Britian in the face of threats.  As well as testifying from her own wide-ranging experience that 'These hate crimes towards Christian women are increasing and do not seem to end. These crimes are unreported and unpunished'.  She visited 100's of Christian families in Punjab over a decade or more.  She went on to comment on the fact that in many places Christian women are denied water after local Muslims claimed that wells would become 'unclean' if Christians touched them.  

In addition, Peter Jacob from Pakistan deals with the rape of Christian women - asserting that the number of attacks against women in Pakistan is four times than the cases that are reported, and that many sex crimes pass in silence.  


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