Christian Owner Beaten to Death in Pakistan

Iqbal Masih

Persecution Of Pakistan’s Christians Continues Unabated, Young Iqbal Masih is the fifth victim of Christian persecution since the start of 2022.

A group of men came to Iqbal Masih’s snooker club in Lahore Development Authority (LDA) quarters in Model Town, Lahore, on the eve of February 13, 2022. What was meant to be a fun activity turned ugly, when they started arguing over the game – and some money matters. When Masih asked them to leave his club, the men abused him and ransacked his property. The situation worsened, as more representatives of the Muslim and Christian communities got involved in the fight.

Samsoon Gill, the victims’ uncle, filed an FIR against the attackers at 9pm on February 13. The next morning, on February 14, a group of some 150 to 200 Muslim men came to the Christian part of the LDA quarters with guns, bricks and iron rods, and threatened filers of the FIR.

In the heat of the moment, they grabbed Iqbal Masih and beat him with bricks and iron rods and badly injured his brother and cousin. The victim succumbed to injuries in a local hospital shortly after. The residents of the LDA quarters called the police but they were not able to reach the crime scene on time because of the PSL activities in the Lahore.

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