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Article: RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: OUTSIDERS BLAMED FOR ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS

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August 25, 2009
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Zofeen Ebrahim
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-25-2009
PUNJAB, Pakistan, Aug. 25, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - The death of nine
people following this month's riot directed against a Christian
colony in eastern Pakistan has cast a pall of gloom over a nation
carved out from the Indian subcontinent in the name of religion.
The tragedy in Gojra City came a full two weeks before Pakistan
celebrated its 62nd Independence Day, on Aug. 14, since its birth
in 1947. On Aug. 1, a group of Muslims looted and burned houses and
a Catholic church in the colony.
This incident transpired a day after a similar event took place
in Korian village, seven kilometres away from Gojra. Houses,
livestock, and a Catholic ...

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