Mahira Khan has urged Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari to look into giving protection to minorities after a 200-strong mob attacked a Christian family in Okara.
Taking to Twitter, Mahira, by tagging Mazari, wrote: “Dear Shireen Mazari, your attention needed here please. We need to lead by example.
According to a report, Christian boys were beaten in a Muslim-majority village in Okara district of Punjab province in Pakistan.
Mangta Masih, a villager lost his thumb when a mob attacked his house.
“We hid our women inside while they tried to break in. One of them grabbed me from behind and another struck with a sickle blade. I tried to prevent the blow with my right hand. I fell down and they kept beating us with batons,” the 45-year-old laborer told the publication.
“They were armed with glass bottles, stones, axes, batons and bricks. Others used stairs to climb to our roofs and started breaking our furniture. We pleaded to spare the women but the attack continued for half an hour,” Masih said.
The local deputy superintendent of police visited the site on May 16 and assured locals of registering a first information report (FIR) under Section 452 (house trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint).
“They broke the locks, grabbed our hair and pulled us out one by one. Young girls were assaulted and left with torn clothes,” stated a woman lying among the pile of wounded villagers with fractured bones.
According to Father Khalid Mukhtar, parish priest of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Chak 5, the attack was sparked following a May 14 attack on Catholic youngsters.
“The boys were cleaning the church when one of the Muslim landlords, passing by the church, accused them of throwing dust on him. They attacked the boys and then raided 15 houses of our community the next day,” said the priest.
Father Mukhtar conducted a meeting of parish committee members on May 16 at St. Thomas Church, gathered statements of the injured and filed a complaint at the local police station.
Christian activists have been sharing disturbing footage of the attack on social media.
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