Pak no country for Christians, reveals report
By IANS| Updated: 16th January 2021 2:51 pm IST
By Ateet Sharma
New Delhi, Jan 16 : Christians in Pakistan continue to face extreme persecution in every area of their lives, an annual report on the global persecution of Christians has revealed. Ranking Pakistan fifth in the list of 50 countries worldwide where Christians are persecuted for their faith, The World Watch List said that the believers who have converted from Islam face the greatest levels of persecution in Pakistan, but “all Christians are considered second-class citizens in this strongly Islamic” country.
The list is compiled by the Christian advocacy group Open Doors USA and is released at the beginning of each year. It uses data from Open Doors field workers and external experts to quantify and analyze persecution worldwide. Countries are ranked by the severity of persecution of Christians, calculated by analyzing the level of violent persecution plus the pressur
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Modi s letter to Sharif may rekindle old friendship
Sat, Dec 19 2020 01:57:35 PM
By Ateet Sharma
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi s gesture of writing a letter to Pakistans former PM Nawaz Sharif condoling the death of his mother has shown that, in spite of Imran Khan government heaping hateful rhetoric on India, not all is lost when it comes to hoping for better bilateral relations between both the countries in future.
Sharif s mother Begum Shamim Akhtar, died on November 22. Modi s letter, written on November 27, was handed over to his daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif by India s Charge d Affaires at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, Gaurav Ahluwalia.